Mating type gene homologues and putative sex pheromone-sensing pathway in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, a presumably asexual plant root symbiont

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Halary, Sébastien ^a   Daubois, Laurence ^a   Terrat, Yves ^a   Ellenberger, Sabrina ^b   Wöstemeyer, Johannes ^b   Hijri, Mohamed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RNA HELICASE; SEX PHEROMONE; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BASIDIOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLOMEROMYCOTA; GLOMUS CEREBRIFORME; HORMONE ACTION; MICROSPORIDIA; MUCORALES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT ROOT; RHIZOPHAGUS IRREGULARIS; SEXM GENE; SEXP GENE; SYMBIONT; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE ORDER; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MYCORRHIZAE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; ROOT NODULES, PLANT; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84896738010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080729     Document Type: Article

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