Novel sexual-cycle-specific gene silencing in Aspergillus nidulans

Genetics

Volumn 193, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1149-1162

  Czaja, Wioletta ^a,b   Miller, Karen Y ^a   Miller, Bruce L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROKARYON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TRANSGENE; ZYGOTE;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CELL NUCLEUS; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZYGOTE;

EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 84876387831     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.147546     Document Type: Article

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