Bioinformatics analysis of alternative polyadenylation in green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using transcriptome sequences from three different sequencing platforms

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 871-883

  Zhao, Zhixin ^a   Wu, Xiaohui ^a,b   Raj Kumar, Praveen Kumar ^a   Dong, Min ^a,b   Ji, Guoli ^b   Li, Qingshun Quinn ^a,b,c   Liang, Chun ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative polyadenylation; Alternative splicing; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Intron retention; Poly(A) signals; Sequencing platforms

Indexed keywords

HYDROLASE; LIGASE; POLYADENYLIC ACID; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALGAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 84901379457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.010249     Document Type: Article

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