Trancriptional landscape of Aspergillus niger at breaking of conidial dormancy revealed by RNA-sequencing

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Novodvorska, Michaela ^a   Hayer, Kimran ^a   Pullan, Steven T ^a   Wilson, Raymond ^a   Blythe, Martin J ^a   Stam, Hein ^b   Stratford, Malcolm ^a   Archer, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b DSM FOOD SPECIALTIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antisense transcription; Aspergillus niger; Conidia; Dormancy; RNA seq; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; ERYTHRITOL; GLUCOSE; GLYCEROL; MANNITOL; NITRATE; NITROGEN; POLYOL; TRANSCRIPTOME; TREHALOSE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBON METABOLISM; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORMANCY; DOWN REGULATION; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL METABOLISM; FUNGAL SPORE GERMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL RESPIRATION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA METABOLISM; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SOLUTE;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DOWN-REGULATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLUCONEOGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPORES, FUNGAL; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER;

EID: 84875926549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-246     Document Type: Article

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