Roles for receptors, pheromones, G proteins, and mating type genes during sexual reproduction in neurospora crassa

Genetics

Volumn 190, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1389-1404

  Kim, Hyojeong ^a   Wright, Sara J ^a,b   Park, Gyungsoon ^a,c   Ouyang, Shouqiang ^a   Krystofova, Svetlana ^a,d   Borkovich, Katherine A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

^d SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCG 4 LIGAND; PHEROMONE DERIVATIVE; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; PRE 2 PHEROMONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENDER IDENTITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENITAL SYSTEM; HETEROKARYON; MALE; MATING; MEIOSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPOROGENESIS;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMOTAXIS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, FUNGAL; FERTILITY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; HYPHAE; MEIOSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHEROMONES; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 84859585029     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.136358     Document Type: Article

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