Transcriptome analysis of the model protozoan, tetrahymena thermophila, using deep RNA sequencing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Xiong, Jie ^a,e   Lu, Xingyi ^a,e   Zhou, Zhemin ^b   Chang, Yue ^a,e   Yuan, Dongxia ^a   Tian, Miao ^a,e   Zhou, Zhigang ^d   Wang, Lei ^b   Fu, Chengjie ^a   Orias, Eduardo ^c   Miao, Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; PROTOZOAL RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME; GENOME SIZE; INTRON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PROTIST LIFE CYCLE STAGE; RNA SEQUENCE; SOMATIC GENOME; STARVATION; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNTRANSLATED REGION; GENE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EUKARYOTA; MYXOZOA; PROTISTA; PROTOZOA; TETRAHYMENA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84863053735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030630     Document Type: Article

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