Establishing an unusual cell type: How to make a dikaryon

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 706-711

  Kruzel, Emilia K ^a   Hull, Christina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BASIDIOMYCETES; CELL TYPE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUSHROOM; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; USTILAGO;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; EUKARYOTA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 78649668034     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2010.09.016     Document Type: Review

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