Fungal mating pheromones: Choreographing the dating game

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 668-676

  Jones, Stephen K ^a   Bennett, Richard J ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GPCR; Heterothallic; Homothallic; MAPK kinase; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SEX PHEROMONE;

ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUSION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MATING SYSTEM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEXUALITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; PHEROMONES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 79956151029     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2011.04.001     Document Type: Review

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