Genome-Wide gene expression profiling of fertilization competent mycelium in opposite mating types in the heterothallic fungus Podospora anserina

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Bidard, Frédérique ^a,b,d   Benkhali, Jinane ^a,b   Coppin, Evelyne ^a,b   Imbeaud, Sandrine ^b,e   Grognet, Pierre ^a,c   Delacroix, Hervé ^a,b   Debuchy, Robert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^e INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FERTILIZATION; FMR1 GENE; FPR1 GENE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MATING TYPE; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; REPRODUCTION; SMR1 GENE; SMR2 GENE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PODOSPORA;

FUNGI; MYCELIUM (GENUS); PEZIZOMYCOTINA; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MYCELIUM; PODOSPORA;

EID: 79959612553     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021476     Document Type: Article

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