Gene genealogies indicates abundant gene conversions and independent evolutionary histories of the mating-type chromosomes in the evolutionary history of Neurospora tetrasperma

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Menkis, Audrius ^a   Whittle, Carrie A ^b   Johannesson, Hanna ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; PHYLOGENETICS; RECOMBINATION;

ASCOMYCOTA; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA TETRASPERMA;

FUNGAL DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUROSPORA; PHYLOGENY;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; NEUROSPORA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77955082187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-234     Document Type: Article

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