Sex in Cheese: Evidence for Sexuality in the Fungus Penicillium roqueforti

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Ropars, Jeanne ^a   Dupont, Joëlle ^a   Fontanillas, Eric ^b   Rodríguez de la Vega, Ricardo C ^b   Malagnac, Fabienne ^b,d   Coton, Monika ^c   Giraud, Tatiana ^b   López Villavicencio, Manuela ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BREST   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CHEESEMAKING; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; MAT GENE; MATING; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENICILLIUM ROQUEFORTI; POINT MUTATION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SEXUALITY; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEESE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENICILLIUM; POINT MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PENICILLIUM ROQUEFORTII;

EID: 84869812764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049665     Document Type: Article

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