High-Throughput Production of Gene Replacement Mutants in Neurospora crassa

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 722, Issue , 2011, Pages 179-189

  Park, Gyungsoon ^b   Colot, Hildur V ^b   Collopy, Patrick D ^b   Krystofova, Svetlana ^b   Crew, Christopher ^b   Ringelberg, Carol ^b   Litvinkova, Liubov ^b   Altamirano, Lorena ^b   Li, Liande ^b   Curilla, Susan ^b   Wang, Wei ^b   Gorrochotegui Escalante, Norma ^b   Dunlap, Jay C ^b   Borkovich, Katherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Functional genomics; Gene deletion; High throughput gene knockout; Large scale mutagenesis; Yeast recombinational cloning

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ELECTROPORATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPORATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 80053120609     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-040-9_13     Document Type: Chapter

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