Novel proteins required for meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA and siRNA generation in Neurospora crassa

Genetics

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 91-100

  Hammond, Thomas M ^a   Xiao, Hua ^b   Boon, Erin C ^b   Decker, Logan M ^b   Lee, Seung A ^b   Perdue, Tony D ^c   Pukkila, Patricia J ^c   Shiu, Patrick K T ^c  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MEIOTIC SILENCING BY UNPAIRED DNA; MESSENGER RNA; SAD 4 PROTEIN; SAD 5 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SEQUENCE;

CELL NUCLEUS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, DOMINANT; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; HOMOZYGOTE; MEIOSIS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

ASCOMYCOTA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 84877097328     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.148999     Document Type: Article

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