Photobiology in the Zygomycota: Multiple photoreceptor genes for complex responses to light

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 893-899

  Corrochano, Luis M ^a   Garre, Victoriano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blue light; Carotene; LOV; Mucor; Photoreceptor; Phototropism; Phycomyces; Pilobolus; Rhizopus; Transcription factor; White Collar complex

Indexed keywords

BETA CAROTENE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WHITE COLLAR 1 PROTEIN; WHITE COLLAR 2 PROTEIN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOACCLIMATIZATION; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTROPISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZYGOMYCETES;

BETA CAROTENE; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LIGHT; MUCORALES; PHOTOBIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

FUNGI; MUCOR; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHYCOMYCES; PHYCOMYCES BLAKESLEEANUS; PILOBOLUS; PILOBOLUS CRYSTALLINUS; RHIZOPUS; ZYGOMYCETES; ZYGOMYCOTA;

EID: 77957233305     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2010.04.007     Document Type: Review

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