Gene discovery and transcript analyses in the corn smut pathogen Ustilago maydis: Expressed sequence tag and genome sequence comparison

BMC Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ho, Eric C H ^a   Cahill, Matt J ^b   Saville, Barry J ^c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONTIG; FUNGAL RNA; NITROGEN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL TYPE; CONTIG MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIPLOIDY; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL METABOLISM; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOIDY; INTRON; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMUT (PLANT DISEASE); STARVATION; TELIOSPORE; USTILAGO MAYDIS; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; USTILAGO;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; USTILAGO MAYDIS; ZEA MAYS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENOME, FUNGAL; INTRONS; NITROGEN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; USTILAGO; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 37449022037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-334     Document Type: Article

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