Sexual attraction: On the role of fungal pheromone/receptor systems (A review)

Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-143

  Kothe, Erika ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ascomycetous yeasts; Filamentous ascomycetes; Fungal pheromones and pheromon receptors of lower fungi; Heterobasidiomycetes; Hymenomycetes; Yeasts; Zygomycetes

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; HETEROBASIDIOMYCETES; HYMENOMYCETES; MYCELIUM (GENUS); MYXOGASTRIA; OOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCETES;

EID: 44649105748     PISSN: 12178950     EISSN: 15882640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/AMicr.55.2008.2.5     Document Type: Review

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