Meiotic silencing in the homothallic fungus Gibberella zeae

Fungal Biology

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1290-1302

  Son, Hokyoung ^a   Min, Kyunghun ^a   Lee, Jungkwan ^b   Raju, Namboori B ^c   Lee, Yin Won ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Dong A University   (South Korea)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gibberella zeae; Meiotic silencing; Meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA; Repeat induced point mutation (RIP)

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

AUTOGAMY; CEREAL; CYTOLOGY; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; MUTATION; OUTCROSSING; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN; SPORE;

ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GIBBERELLA; MEIOSIS;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GIBBERELLA; MEIOSIS; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; GIBBERELLA; GIBBERELLA ZEAE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 81955164168     PISSN: 18786146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.funbio.2011.09.006     Document Type: Article

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