Transcriptome analysis of the Euglena gracilis plastid chromosome

Current Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 425-438

  Geimer, Simon ^a   Belicová, Anna ^b   Legen, Julia ^a,c   Sláviková, Silvia ^b,d   Herrmann, Reinhold G ^a   Krajčovič, Juraj ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Euglena; Macroarray; Plastid chromosome; Secondary endosymbiosis; Stress; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; HEAVY METAL; HERBICIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALGAL GENETICS; ALGAL GROWTH; CHLOROPLAST; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EUGLENA GRACILIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PLASTID GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA METABOLISM; RNA TRANSLATION; TEMPERATURE STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CHLOROPLASTS; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; EUGLENA GRACILIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, PLANT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASTIDS;

ALGAE; EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUGLENIDA;

EID: 68649126515     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-009-0256-8     Document Type: Review

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