Identification of microRNA-Like RNAs in the Filamentous Fungus Trichoderma reesei by Solexa Sequencing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Kang, Kang ^a,b   Zhong, Jiasheng ^a   Jiang, Liang ^a   Liu, Gang ^a   Gou, Christine Yuan ^c   Wu, Qiong ^a   Wang, You ^a   Luo, Jun ^b   Gou, Deming ^a  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; FUNGAL RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA LIKE SMALL RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME REGULATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HYPOCREA JECORINA; MEDICAL DEVICE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; UPREGULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, FUNGAL; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 84884855941     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076288     Document Type: Article

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