Combining laser microdissection and RNA-seq to chart the transcriptional landscape of fungal development

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Teichert, Ines ^a   Wolff, Gabriele ^a   Kück, Ulrich ^a   Nowrousian, Minou ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PRO1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGFP GENE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FRUITING BODY; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; LASER MICRODISSECTION; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; PPG1 GENE; PPG2 GENE; PRO1 GENE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SORDARIA MACROSPORA; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNTRANSLATED REGION; UPREGULATION;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; LASERS; MICRODISSECTION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SORDARIALES;

ASCOMYCOTA; EUKARYOTA; MYCELIUM (GENUS); SORDARIA;

EID: 84866637856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-511     Document Type: Article

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