The importance of subclasses of chitin synthase enzymes with myosin-like domains for the fitness of fungi

Fungal Biology Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-14

  Fernandes, Chantal ^a   Gow, Neil A R ^c   Gonçalves, Teresa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chitin synthase; Class V; Class VII; Filamentous fungi; Myosin like domain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964624249     PISSN: 17494613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fbr.2016.03.002     Document Type: Review

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