Senescence in fungi: The view from Neurospora

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-143

  Maheshwari, Ramesh ^a,b   Navaraj, Arunasalam ^a,c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b University of Pennsylvania Medical School ^*  (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Mitochondria; mtDNA; Neurospora; Plasmids; Senescence

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CYTOPLASM; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; MITOCHONDRION; MUTAGENESIS; MYCELIUM; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NEUROSPORA INTERMEDIA; NEUROSPORA TETRASPERMA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SPORE GERMINATION; WILD TYPE;

CELL AGING; DNA, FUNGAL; MYCELIUM; NEUROSPORA; PLASMIDS;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA;

EID: 39649101662     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.01027.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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