VelC positively controls sexual development in aspergillus nidulans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Park, Hee Soo ^a   Nam, Tae Young ^a   Han, Kap Hoon ^a,b   Kim, Sun Chang ^c   Yu, Jae Hyuk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Woosuk University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN VELC; PROTEIN VOSA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABAA GENE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BRLA GENE; CLEISTOTHECIA; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; EPISTASIS; FRUITING BODY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPOROGENESIS; VELC GENE; VOSA GENE; WETA GENE;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL;

EID: 84896538831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089883     Document Type: Article

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