Asymmetry in sexual pheromones is not required for ascomycete mating

Current Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 1337-1346

  Gonalves Sá, Joana ^a,b,c   Murray, Andrew ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CELL FUSION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASCOMYCOTA; CELL FUSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; PHEROMONES; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 80052005118     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.06.054     Document Type: Article

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