Bisulfite sequencing reveals that Aspergillus flavus holds a hollow in DNA methylation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Si Yang ^a,b   Lin, Jian Qing ^a   Wu, Hong Long ^b   Wang, Cheng Cheng ^a   Huang, Shu Jia ^b   Luo, Yan Feng ^a   Sun, Ji Hua ^b   Zhou, Jian Xiang ^a   Yan, Shu Jing ^b   He, Jian Guo ^a   Wang, Jun ^b   He, Zhu Mei ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; FUNGAL DNA; GENOMIC DNA; HYDROGEN SULFITE; SULFITE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; BISULFITE SEQUENCING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS;

ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; FUNGI;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFITES;

EID: 84856062466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030349     Document Type: Article

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