Inversion of the Chromosomal Region between Two Mating Type Loci Switches the Mating Type in Hansenula polymorpha

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Maekawa, Hiromi ^a   Kaneko, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAT1 GENE; MAT2 GENE; MATING; MATING TYPE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PICHIA ANGUSTA; SLA2 GENE; SUI1 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PICHIA; REPRODUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

PICHIA ANGUSTA;

CHROMOSOME INVERSION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MEIOSIS; PICHIA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84912127517     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004796     Document Type: Article

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