Genomic islands in the pathogenic filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Fedorova, Natalie D ^a   Khaldi, Nora ^b   Joardar, Vinita S ^a   Maiti, Rama ^a   Amedeo, Paolo ^a   Anderson, Michael J ^c   Crabtree, Jonathan ^a   Silva, Joana C ^a   Badger, Jonathan H ^a   Albarraq, Ahmed ^c   Angiuoli, Sam ^a   Bussey, Howard ^d   Bowyer, Paul ^c   Cotty, Peter J ^e   Dyer, Paul S ^f   Egan, Amy ^a   Galens, Kevin ^a   Fraser Liggett, Claire M ^a   Haas, Brian J ^a   Inman, Jason M ^a   Kent, Richard ^c   Lemieux, Sebastien ^g   Malavazi, Iran ^h   Orvis, Joshua ^a   Roemer, Terry ⁱ   Ronning, Catherine M ^a   Sundaram, Jaideep P ^a   Sutton, Granger ^a   Turner, Geoff ^j   Venter, J Craig ^a   White, Owen R ^a   Whitty, Brett R ^a   Youngman, Phil ⁱ   Wolfe, Kenneth H ^b   Goldman, Gustavo H ^h   Wortman, Jennifer R ^a   Jiang, Bo ⁱ   Denning, David W ^c   Nierman, William C ^a,k   more..

^a J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

ⁱ MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^k GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; CHITIN; NUCLEOTIDE; ALLERGEN; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS CLAVATUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC ISLAND; HETEROKARYON; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MAMMAL; NEOSARTORYA FISCHERI; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENE; REGULATOR GENE; SOIL; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRANSPOSON; CHROMOSOME; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUROTIALES; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIRULENCE;

ASPERGILLUS CLAVATUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; NEOSARTORYA FISCHERI;

ALLERGENS; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; EUROTIALES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRULENCE;

EID: 43249118838     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000046     Document Type: Article

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