Genome-wide identification of transcription factors and transcription-factor binding sites in oleaginous microalgae Nannochloropsis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hu, Jianqiang ^a,b   Wang, Dongmei ^a   Li, Jing ^a,b   Jing, Gongchao ^a   Ning, Kang ^a   Xu, Jian ^a  

^a Qingdao institute of bioenergy and bioprocess technology   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; LIPID METABOLISM; MICROALGA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT GENOME; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, PLANT; LIPID METABOLISM; MICROALGAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84903300632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep05454     Document Type: Article

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