Comparison of loline alkaloid gene clusters across fungal endophytes: Predicting the co-regulatory sequence motifs and the evolutionary history

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1002-1010

  Kutil, Brandi L ^a   Greenwald, Charles ^a   Liu, Gang ^a   Spiering, Martin J ^b   Schardl, Christopher L ^b   Wilkinson, Heather H ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Insecticidal alkaloids; Interspecific hybrids; Mutualism; PhyloCon; Secondary metabolism

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; LOLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENDOPHYTE; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ALKALOIDS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; INSECTICIDES; INTRONS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS; SYMBIOSIS;

EPICHLOE; EPICHLOE FESTUCAE; EPICHLOE TYPHINA; NEOTYPHODIUM; NEOTYPHODIUM COENOPHIALUM; NEOTYPHODIUM SP. PAUTG-1; NEOTYPHODIUM UNCINATUM;

EID: 34548267218     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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