Transcriptome analysis of the parasite Encephalitozoon cuniculi: An in-depth examination of pre-mRNA splicing in a reduced eukaryote

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Grisdale, Cameron J ^a   Bowers, Lisa C ^b,c   Didier, Elizabeth S ^b,c   Fast, Naomi M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TULANE NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; FUNGAL EXAMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION; RABBIT; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, FUNGAL; INTRONS; OPEN READING FRAMES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPLICEOSOMES;

ENCEPHALITOZOON CUNICULI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84875312322     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-207     Document Type: Article

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