A genetic selection for Neurospora crassa mutants altered in their light regulation of transcription

Genetics

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 171-183

  Navarro Sampedro, Laura ^a   Yanofsky, Charles ^b   Corrochano, Luis M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYGROMYCIN; PROTEIN CON 10; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOACCLIMATIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; CAROTENOIDS; CINNAMATES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HYGROMYCIN B; LIGHT; MUTATION; MYCELIUM; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 40849141297     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.079582     Document Type: Article

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