Assessing RNAi frequency and efficiency in Ophiostoma floccosum and O. piceae

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 804-812

  Tanguay, Philippe ^a   Bozza, Siegfried ^a   Breuil, Colette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ophiostoma; Real time RT PCR; RNA silencing; RNAi

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; GENE SILENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPHIOSTOMA FLOCCOSUM; OPHIOSTOMA PICEAE; PIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASCOMYCOTA; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA PRIMERS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; MELANINS; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENES;

FUNGI; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMA FLOCCOSUM; OPHIOSTOMA PICEAE;

EID: 33846275329     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2006.06.004     Document Type: Article

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