Sexual genes in the asexual filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger and related Aspergilli

Aspergillus in the Genomic Era

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 107-131

  Pál, Károly ^a,b   Van Diepeningen, Anne D ^a   Varga, János ^b,c   Debets, Alfons J M ^a   Hoekstra, Rolf F ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^c CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asexuality; Mating type genes; Meiosis related genes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879192287     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.3920/978-90-8686-635-9     Document Type: Chapter

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