Base composition and nucleosome density in exonic and intronic regions in genes of the filamentous ascomycetes Aspergillus nidulans and Aspergillus oryzae

Gene

Volumn 525, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-10

  Nishida, Hiromi ^a   Katayama, Takuya ^a   Suzuki, Yutaka ^b   Kondo, Shinji ^c   Horiuchi, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aspergillus nidulans; Aspergillus oryzae; GC content; Gene splicing; Nucleosome density

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; EXON; FUNGAL GENE; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; NUCLEOSOMES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS; ASPERGILLUS ORYZAE; EMERICELLA NIDULANS;

EID: 84878853264     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.04.077     Document Type: Article

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