Chromosome segment duplications in Neurospora crassa: Barren crosses beget fertile science

BioEssays

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 209-219

  Singh, Parmit K ^a   Iyer, Srividhya V ^a   Mukund, ^a   Ramakrishnan, ^a   Kasbekar, Durgadas P ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Genome defense; Meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA; Neurospora chromosome rearrangements; Repeatinducedpoint mutation; Translocations and duplications

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE SILENCING; HETEROZYGOSITY; INSERTIONAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; MEIOSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PROGENY; RECIPROCAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CHROMOSOME; CROSS BREEDING; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENE DUPLICATION; HETEROZYGOTE; MEIOSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 62849111156     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.200800098     Document Type: Article

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