Evidence for the absence of meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA in Neurospora tetrasperma

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 351-362

  Jacobson, David J ^a   Raju, Namboori B ^a   Freitag, Michael ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mating type chromosome; Neurospora; Pseudohomothallism; Recombination block; Sex chromosome

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTONE H1; PROTEIN SAD 1; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACKCROSSING; CHROMOSOME; FUNGUS MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROZYGOSITY; INTROGRESSION; MEIOSIS; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA TETRASPERMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; REPRODUCTION;

CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTONES; MEIOSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NEUROSPORA TETRASPERMA;

EID: 38849150959     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2007.09.014     Document Type: Article

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