Aspergillus: Sex and Recombination

Mycopathologia

Volumn 178, Issue 5-6, 2014, Pages 349-362

  Varga, János ^a   Szigeti, Gyöngyi ^a   Baranyi, Nikolett ^a   Kocsubé, Sándor ^a   O’Gorman, Céline M ^b   Dyer, Paul S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aspergillus; Mating type genes; Population structure; Recombination; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS;

ASPERGILLUS; CELL CYCLE; CROSSING OVER; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

ASPERGILLUS; CELL CYCLE; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL;

EID: 84912140232     PISSN: 0301486X     EISSN: 15730832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11046-014-9795-8     Document Type: Article

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