Self-signalling and self-fusion in filamentous fungi

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 608-615

  Read, Nick D ^a   Lichius, Alexander ^a   Shoji, Jun ya ^a   Goryachev, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

CELL FUSION; COLONY FORMATION; CONIDIAL ANASTOMOSIS TUBE; CONIDIUM; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HYPHAL SELF FUSION; MATING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST CELL;

CELL FUSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 71549144070     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2009.09.008     Document Type: Review

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