Programmed cell death correlates with virus transmission in a filamentous fungus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1506, 2002, Pages 2269-2276

  Biella, Silvia ^a   Smith, Myron L ^a   Aist, James R ^a   Cortesi, Paolo ^a   Milgroom, Michael G ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetric programmed cell death; Chestnut blight fungus; Cryphonectria parasitica; Heterokaryon incompatibility; Horizontal transmission; Vegetative incompatibility

Indexed keywords

ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FUNGUS; PATHOGEN; VIRUS;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA; FUNGUS; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROKARYON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; ASCOMYCOTA; CRYPHONECTRIA; CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA; FUNGI; TEREBRANTIA;

EID: 53149121993     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2148     Document Type: Article

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