Transcriptome analysis in tardigrade species reveals specific molecular pathways for stress adaptations

Bioinformatics and Biology Insights

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 69-95

  Förster, Frank ^a   Beisser, Daniela ^a   Grohme, Markus A ^b   Liang, Chunguang ^a   Mali, Brahim ^b   Siegl, Alexander Matthias ^d   Engelmann, Julia C ^e   Shkumatov, Alexander V ^f,h   Schokraie, Elham ^g   Müller, Tobias ^a   Schnölzer, Martina ^g   Schill, Ralph O ^c   Frohme, Marcus ^b   Dandekar, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WILDAU   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^f EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^g German cancer research center   (Germany)

^h HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Cluster; Expressed sequence tag; Protein family; Rna; Tardigrada; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN; GLYCOLIPID; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COLD; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENT; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GLYCOGEN METABOLISM; HEAT; HYPSIBIUS DUJARDINI; LIPID METABOLISM; MILNESIUM TARDIGRADUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; RADIATION; RNA STABILITY; RNA STABILITY MOTIF; RNA STRUCTURE; STRESS; SURVIVAL; TARDIGRADA; VACUUM;

ANIMALIA; HYPSIBIUS DUJARDINI; MILNESIUM TARDIGRADUM; TARDIGRADA;

EID: 84860878997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11779322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/BBI.S9150     Document Type: Article

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