Pervasive antisense transcription is evolutionary conserved in budding yeast

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 409-421

  Goodman, Aaron J ^a   Daugharthy, Evan R ^a,b   Kim, Junhyong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antisense transcription; Comparative transcriptomics; S. paradoxus; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Yeast

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; HISTONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BUDDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES PARADOXUS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; YEAST; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

ANTISENSE ELEMENTS (GENETICS); BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; HISTONES; SACCHAROMYCETALES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879283199     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss240     Document Type: Article

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