The genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6934, 2003, Pages 859-868

  Galagan, James E ^a   Calvo, Sarah E ^a   Borkovich, Katherine A ^b   Selker, Eric U ^c   Read, Nick O ^d   Jaffe, David ^a   FitzHugh, William ^e   Ma, Li Jun ^a   Smirnov, Serge ^a   Purcell, Seth ^a   Rehman, Bushra ^a   Elkins, Timothy ^a   Engels, Reinhard ^a   Wang, Shunguang ^a   Nielsen, Cydney B ^a   Butler, Jonathan ^a   Endrizzi, Matthew ^a   Qui, Dayong ^a   Ianakiev, Peter ^a   Bell Pedersen, Deborah ^f   Nelson, Mary Anne ^g   Werner Washburne, Margaret ^g   Selitrennikoff, Claude P ^h   Kinsey, John A ⁱ   Braun, Edward L ^j   Zelter, Alex ^d,k   Schulte, Ulrich ^l   Kothe, Gregory O ^c   Jedd, Gregory ^m   Mewes, Werner ^n,o   Staben, Chuck ^p   Marcotte, Edward ^q   Greenberg, David ^r   Roy, Alice ^a   Foley, Karen ^a   Naylor, Jerome ^a   Stange Thomann, Nicole ^a   Barrett, Robert ^a   Gnerre, Sante ^a   Kamal, Michael ^a   Kamvysselis, Manolis ^a   Mauceli, Evan ^a   Bielke, Cord ⁿ   Rudd, Stephen ^o   Frishman, Dmitrij ^o   Krystofova, Svetlana ^b   Rasmussen, Carolyn ^s   Metzenberg, Robert L ^t   Perkins, David D ^t   Kroken, Scott ^s   Cogoni, Carlo ^u   Macino, Giuseppe ^u   Catcheside, David ^v   Li, Weixi ^p   Pratt, Robert J ^f   Osmani, Stephen A ^w   DeSouza, Colin P C ^w   Glass, Louise ^s   Orbach, Marc J ^x   Berglund, J Andrew ^c   Voelker, Rodger ^c   Yarden, Oded ^k   Plamann, Michael ^y   Seiler, Stephan ^y   Dunlap, Jay ^z   Radford, Alan ^aa   Aramayo, Rodolfo ^f   Natvig, Donald O ^g   Alex, Lisa A ^ab   Mannhaupt, Gertrud ⁿ   Ebbole, Daniel J ^f   Freitag, Michael ^c   Paulsen, Ian ^r   Sachs, Matthew S ^ac   Lander, Eric S ^a,ad   Nusbaum, Chad ^a   Birren, Bruce ^a   more..

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e CELERA GENOMICS   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j University of Florida   (United States)

^k HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^l HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^m ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^o INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^p UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^r J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^u SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^v FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^w OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^z DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^ab CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ac OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ad MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; FUNGI; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROTEINS;

MUTATION;

GENES;

CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP; DITERPENE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; FUNGAL DNA; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NON RIBOSOMAL PEPTIDE SYNTHETASE; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; POLYKETIDE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; REPETITIVE DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 5S; RNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

FUNGUS; GENOME;

ARTICLE; BREAD; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FUNGUS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; MOULD; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISEASE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MELANOGASTER; MYXOGASTRIA; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0037464589     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01554     Document Type: Article

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