The het-c heterokaryon incompatibility gene in Aspergillus niger

Mycological Research

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 222-229

  van Diepeningen, Anne D ^a   Pál, Károly ^a,b   van der Lee, Theo A J ^a   Hoekstra, Rolf F ^a   Debets, Alfons J M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aspergillus niger het c; Neurospora crassa het c; Protoplast transformation; Vegetative incompatibility

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HETEROKARYON INCOMPATIBILITY LOCI PROTEIN, FUNGAL;

AMINO ACID; FUNGUS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; INCOMPATIBILITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 59649102642     PISSN: 09537562     EISSN: 14698102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mycres.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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