Identification of the mating-type (MAT) locus that controls sexual reproduction of blastomyces dermatitidis

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-117

  Li, Wenjun ^a   Sullivan, Thomas D ^b   Walton, Eric ^a   Averette, Anna Floyd ^a   Sakthikumar, Sharadha ^c   Cuomo, Christina A ^c   Klein, Bruce S ^b   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLASTOMYCES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; TRANSPOSON;

BLASTOMYCES; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; MODELS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; CLEISTOTHECIA; FUNGI;

EID: 84871953195     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00249-12     Document Type: Article

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