Complex mechanisms regulate developmental expression of the matA (HMG) mating type gene in homothallic Aspergillus nidulans

Genetics

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 795-808

  Czaja, Wioletta ^a,b   Miller, Karen Y ^a   Miller, Bruce L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; FRUITING BODY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SILENCING; MATA GENE; MATING; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCTION; SELF FERTILIZATION; TRANSGENE;

5' FLANKING REGION; ALLELES; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC LOCI; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 81255197631     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.131458     Document Type: Article

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