RNA-Seq analysis reveals new gene models and alternative splicing in the fungal pathogen Fusarium graminearum

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Chunzhao ^a,b,c   Waalwijk, Cees ^a   de Wit, Pierre J G M ^a   Tang, Dingzhong ^b   van der Lee, Theo ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Fusarium graminearum; Gene annotation; Novel transcriptionally active regions; RNA Seq

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMPLICON; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FUNGAL GENE; FUSARIUM GRAMINEARUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC REGULATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA EDITING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FUSARIUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

FUNGI; GIBBERELLA ZEAE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; FUSARIUM; GENES, FUNGAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA EDITING; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872180043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-21     Document Type: Article

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