Nothing special in the specialist? Draft genome sequence of Cryomyces antarcticus, the most extremophilic fungus from antarctica

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Sterflinger, Katja ^a   Lopandic, Ksenija ^a   Pandey, Ram Vinay ^b,c   Blasi, Barbara ^a   Kriegner, Albert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOMYCES ANTARCTICUS; DOTHIDEOMYCETES; EUROTIOMYCETES; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SORDARIOMYCETES; SPECIES COMPARISON; ASCOMYCETES; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; ENZYMOLOGY; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CRYOMYCES ANTARCTICUS; FUNGI;

LACCASE; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASE;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE COMPOSITION; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; LACCASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYKETIDE SYNTHASES;

EID: 84907856484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109908     Document Type: Article

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