Identification and analysis of essential Aspergillus nidulans genes using the heterokaryon rescue technique

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2517-2526

  Osmani, Aysha H ^a   Oakley, Berl R ^a   Osmani, Stephen A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL NUCLEUS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL NUCLEUS; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OROTIDINE-5'-PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; SPORES, FUNGAL;

EID: 34548842996     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.406     Document Type: Article

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