Identifying phase-specific genes in the fungal pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum using a genomic shotgun microarray

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2314-2326

  Hwang, Lena ^a   Hocking Murray, Davina ^b   Bahrami, Adam K ^b,c   Andersson, Margareta ^b   Rine, Jasper ^a   Sil, Anita ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL POLARITY; CONIDIUM; DNA MICROARRAY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOMICS; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; MELANOGENESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YEAST;

BLOTTING, NORTHERN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HEAT; HISTOPLASMA; MYCELIUM; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; YEASTS;

AJELLOMYCES; AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0037632910     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E03-01-0027     Document Type: Article

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