RNAi function, diversity, and loss in the fungal kingdom

Chromosome Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6-7, 2013, Pages 561-572

  Billmyre, R Blake ^a   Calo, Silvia ^a   Feretzaki, Marianna ^a   Wang, Xuying ^a,b   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fungi; miRNA; MSUD; Quelling; RNAi; Sex induced silencing

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICRORNA; MUTAGENIC AGENT; NATURAL ANTISENSE TRANSCRIPT; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNPAIRED DNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EPIGENETICS; FUNGUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; MEIOSIS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX; USTILAGO MAYDIS; VIRUS IMMUNITY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; MUCOR CIRCINELLOIDES; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; USTILAGO;

EID: 84891038099     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-013-9388-2     Document Type: Review

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