Neurospora: The Organism, its Genes and its Genome
A J F Griffiths
from: Neurospora: Genomics and Molecular Biology (Edited by: Durgadas P. Kasbekar and Kevin McCluskey). Caister Academic Press, U.K. (2013)
Abstract
The fungus Neurospora has been the subject of a large variety of types of research in genetics and other aspects of biology. This chapter provides a short overview of Neurospora genetics, both as an introduction for those not familiar with this fungus as a genetic tool, and as a general context for the diverse research described in the ensuing chapters. The overview consists of a description of the organism, how it is used in genetics, and a brief account of how the nature of its genome has been revealed. References have been kept to a minimum in this introduction, so for more details of the approaches described see Davis, 2000 read more ...
