The a2 mating-type locos genes lga2 and rga2 direct uniparental mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) inheritance and constrain mtDNA recombination during sexual development of Ustilago maydis

Genetics

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 847-860

  Fedler, Michael ^a   Luh, Kai Stephen ^a   Stelter, Kathrin ^a   Nieto Jacobo, Fernanda ^a   Basse, Christoph W ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PHEROMONE;

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA RECOMBINATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; INHERITANCE; LGA 2 GENE; MATING TYPE; MITOCHONDRIAL FUSION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RGA 2 GENE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; UNIPARENTAL MITOCHONDRIAL DNA INHERITANCE; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOTYPE; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; INTRONS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; USTILAGO;

EUKARYOTA; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 62549128274     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.108.096859     Document Type: Article

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