Draft genome sequence of Wickerhamomyces ciferrii NRRL Y-1031 F-60-10

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1582-1583

  Schneider, Jessica ^a   Andrea, Heiko ^b   Blom, Jochen ^a   Jaenicke, Sebastian ^a   Rückert, Christian ^a   Schorsch, Christoph ^b   Szczepanowski, Rafael ^a   Farwick, Mike ^b   Goesmann, Alexander ^a   Pühler, Alfred ^a   Schaffer, Steffen ^b   Tauch, Andreas ^a   Köhler, Tim ^b   Brinkrolf, Karina ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EVONIK INDUSTRIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTIG MAPPING; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PICHIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONTIG MAPPING; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PICHIA;

SPHINGOIDEA;

EID: 84870402881     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00258-12     Document Type: Article

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