From genomics to post-genomics in Aspergillus

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 499-504

  Archer, David B ^a   Dyer, Paul S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGENICITY; APOPTOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DATA BASE; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ASPERGILLOSIS; ASPERGILLUS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; PROTEOMICS; VIRULENCE;

ASPERGILLUS;

EID: 4644268556     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2004.08.003     Document Type: Review

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