The genome sequence of the biocontrol fungus Metarhizium anisopliae and comparative genomics of Metarhizium species

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Pattemore, Julie A ^a   Hane, James K ^b,c   Williams, Angela H ^b,c   Wilson, Bree A L ^a   Stodart, Ben J ^a   Ash, Gavin J ^a  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Centre for Crop and Disease Management Department of Environment and Agriculture Curtin University ^*  (Australia)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comparative; Genome; Genomics; Mating type; Metarhizium anisopliae; Motifs; Pathogenicity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONTENT; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MAT1 1 GENE; MAT1 2 GENE; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ACRIDUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; METARHIZIUM ROBERTSII; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNTENY; TRANSPOSON;

FUNGI; METARHIZIUM; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE;

FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; METARHIZIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNTENY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84905864033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-660     Document Type: Article

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