RNA silencing gene truncation in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 339-349

  Hammond, T M ^a,d   Bok, J W ^a   Andrewski, M D ^a   Reyes Dominguez Y ^b   Scazzocchio, C ^b,c   Keller, N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI;

FUNGAL PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYLOGENY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE SILENCING; MICRORNAS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 41449103029     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00355-07     Document Type: Article

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