Microarray analyses of gene expression during the Tetrahymena thermophila life cycle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Miao, Wei ^a,b   Xiong, Jie ^b   Bowen, Josephine ^a   Wang, Wei ^a,c   Liu, Yifan ^d   Braguinets, Olga ^e   Grigull, Jorg ^e   Pearlman, Ronald E ^e   Orias, Eduardo ^f   Gorovsky, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^c SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER G1; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ASF1; PROTEIN DCL1; PROTEIN EZL1; PROTEIN GIW1; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN TWI1; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CODON; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE; MATURATION; MEIOSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; REPRODUCIBILITY; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; UPREGULATION;

EUKARYOTA; MYXOZOA; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 84887212501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004429     Document Type: Article

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