Transcriptome analysis of the sulfate deficiency response in the marine microalga Emiliania huxleyi

New Phytologist

Volumn 199, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 650-662

  Bochenek, Michal ^a,b   Etherington, Graham J ^c   Koprivova, Anna ^a   Mugford, Sam T ^a   Bell, Thomas G ^b   Malin, Gill ^b   Kopriva, Stanislav ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c SAINSBURY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP); Emiliania huxleyi; Glutathione; RNA sequencing; Sulfate deficiency; Sulfur metabolism; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; SULFATE; SULFUR; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ACCLIMATION; DATA SET; DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE; FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; MICROALGA; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; SEAWATER; SULFATE;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE (DMSP); DRUG EFFECT; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAPTOPHYTA; METABOLISM; MICROALGA; RNA SEQUENCE; SULFATE DEFICIENCY; SULFATE METABOLISM; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE (DMSP); EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; GLUTATHIONE; RNA SEQUENCING; SULFATE DEFICIENCY; SULFUR METABOLISM; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; HAPTOPHYTA; MICROALGAE; SULFATES; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; SULFUR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARABIDOPSIS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLOROPHYTA; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI;

EID: 84880306187     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12303     Document Type: Article

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