Sex determination in the first-described sexual fungus

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1485-1491

  Idnurm, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; MUCORALES; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MUCORALES; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

FUNGI; SYZYGITES MEGALOCARPUS;

EID: 80055112148     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.05149-11     Document Type: Article

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