Sequencing and annotation of the Ophiostoma ulmi genome

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Khoshraftar, Shima ^a   Hung, Stacy ^a   Khan, Sadia ^a   Gong, Yunchen ^b   Tyagi, Vibha ^d   Parkinson, John ^a,c   Sain, Mohini ^d   Moses, Alan M ^a   Christendat, Dinesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Centre for the Analysis of Genome Evolution and Function   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d Natural Fiber and Bio Composite Group   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMA ULMI; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON;

OPHIOSTOMA ULMI; ULMUS;

EID: 84874792776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-162     Document Type: Article

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