Integrating microRNA and mRNA expression profiling in Symbiodinium microadriaticum, a dinoflagellate symbiont of reef-building corals

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Baumgarten, Sebastian ^a   Bayer, Till ^a   Aranda, Manuel ^a   Liew, Yi J ^a,b   Carr, Adrian ^b   Micklem, Gos ^b   Voolstra, Christian R ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coral reef; Dinoflagellates; Expression profiling; microRNA (miRNA); mRNA; RNAseq; Scleractinian corals; Small interfering RNA (siRNA); Small RNA (smRNA); Symbiodinium; Symbiont

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CORAL; DNA DAMAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TARGETING; HEAT STRESS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYMBIODINIUM; SYMBIODINIUM MICROADRIATICUM; SYMBIONT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEF; DINOFLAGELLATE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PARASITOLOGY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALIA; ANTHOZOA; DINOPHYCEAE; SCLERACTINIA; SYMBIODINIUM; SYMBIODINIUM MICROADRIATICUM;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CORAL REEFS; DINOFLAGELLIDA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; MICRORNAS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84885354418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-704     Document Type: Article

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