Dozens of toxin-related genes are expressed in a nontoxic strain of the dinoflagellate Heterocapsa circularisquama

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1503-1506

  Salcedo, Tovah ^a   Upadhyay, Ravi J ^a   Nagasaki, Keizo ^b   Bhattacharya, Debashish ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Harmful algal bloom; Nonribosomal peptide synthase; Polyketide synthase; Porphyrin

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; DINOFLAGELLATE TOXIN; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE; PORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; TOXIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGAL BLOOM; ARTICLE; BIVALVE; CONTIG MAPPING; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROCAPSA CIRCULARISQUAMA; LIGHT EXPOSURE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENOMICS; PORPHYRIN METABOLISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOXIN RELATED GENE;

ANIMALS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, PROTOZOAN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES; PORPHYRINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; ROTIFERA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

ALGAE; BIVALVIA; DINOPHYCEAE; HETEROCAPSA CIRCULARISQUAMA;

EID: 84861416517     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss007     Document Type: Article

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