Sex and the imperfect fungi

Microbiology Spectrum

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Dyer, Paul S ^a   Kück, Ulrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL CYCLE; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; FUNGUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX;

CELL CYCLE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SEX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 85020240777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21650497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/microbiolspec.FUNK-0043-2017     Document Type: Article

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