Sexual reproduction and mating-type-mediated strain development in the penicillin-producing fungus Penicillium chrysogenum

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

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1476-1481

  Böhm, Julia ^a   Hoff, Birgit ^a   O'Gorman, Céline M ^a,b   Wolfers, Simon ^a   Klix, Volker ^c   Binger, Danielle ^a   Zadra, Ivo ^d   Kürnsteiner, Hubert ^d   Pöggeler, Stefanie ^c   Dyer, Paul S ^b   Kück, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASCOSPORE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; CHAETOMIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENDER IDENTITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SORDARIALES; SPOROGENESIS; STRAIN IMPROVEMENT; VISCOSITY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; PENICILLINS; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM; PHENOTYPE; PHEROMONES; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL;

FUNGI; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

EID: 84872842340     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217943110     Document Type: Article

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