Species and condition specific adaptation of the transcriptional landscapes in Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Grumaz, Christian ^a   Lorenz, Stefan ^b   Stevens, Philip ^b   Lindemann, Elena ^b   Schöck, Ulrike ^c   Retey, Julia ^d   Rupp, Steffen ^b   Sohn, Kai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTERFACIAL ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY IGB   (Germany)

^c GATC Biotech AG   (Germany)

^d GENEDATA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Candida dubliniensis; Orthologs; RNA Seq; Transcriptional landscapes

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; ORTHOLOGY; PREDICTION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME, FUNGAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; OPEN READING FRAMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS;

EID: 84875551830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-212     Document Type: Article

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