Tools for high efficiency genetic manipulation of the human pathogen Penicillium marneffei

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 772-778

  Bugeja, Hayley E ^a   Boyce, Kylie J ^a   Weerasinghe, Harshini ^a   Beard, Sally ^a   Jeziorowski, Anne ^a   Pasricha, Shivani ^a   Payne, Michael ^a   Schreider, Lena ^a   Andrianopoulos, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dimorphism; DNA mediated transformation; Gene targeting; Non homologous end joining; Pathogenicity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LIGD GENE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI; PKUA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DNA LIGASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE TARGETING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PENICILLIUM; PHENOTYPE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

FUNGI; PENICILLIUM MARNEFFEI;

EID: 84866455382     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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