The evolutionary trajectory of the mating-type (mat) genes in Neurospora relates to reproductive behavior of taxa

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Wik, Lotta ^a   Karlsson, Magnus ^a   Johannesson, Hanna ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; MATING TYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STOP CODON; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL DNA;

DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; NEUROSPORA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 42549158349     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-109     Document Type: Article

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