Molecular dissection of Neurospora Spore killer meiotic drive elements

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 12093-12098

  Hammond, Thomas M ^a   Rehard, David G ^a   Xiao, Hua ^a   Shiu, Patrick K T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Intragenomic conflict; Segregation distortion; Selfish elements

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASCOSPORE; FUNGUS SPORE; GAMETE; GENE DELETION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MEIOSIS; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VECTORS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NEUROSPORA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPORES, FUNGAL;

NEUROSPORA;

EID: 84864356138     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1203267109     Document Type: Article

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