Organization and evolutionary trajectory of the mating type (MAT) locus in dermatophyte and dimorphic fungal pathogens

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-58

  Li, Wenjun ^a   Metin, Banu ^a   White, Theodore C ^b   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SEATTLE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSPOSASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSPORUM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNTENY; TRICHOPHYTON;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MICROSPORUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYNTENY; TRANSPOSASES; TRICHOPHYTON;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; ARTHRODERMA BENHAMIAE; ARTHRODERMA GYPSEUM; ARTHRODERMATACEAE; ASCOMYCOTA; COCCIDIOIDES; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; COCCIDIOIDES POSADASII; FUNGI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; MICROSPORUM CANIS; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; TRICHOPHYTON EQUINUM; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; TRICHOPHYTON TONSURANS;

EID: 75649124512     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00259-09     Document Type: Article

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