Targeted Cloning of Fungal Telomeres

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 722, Issue , 2011, Pages 11-31

  Farman, Mark L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colony blotting; Genome sequencing; Southern blotting; Subcloning

Indexed keywords

BLOTTING; CHROMOSOME; FUNGUS; NONHUMAN; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TELOMERE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; HYPOCREALES; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYSIOLOGY;

FUNGAL DNA; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HYPOCREALES; TELOMERE;

EID: 80053122409     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-040-9_2     Document Type: Chapter

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