Genome-wide characterization of light-regulated genes in Neurospora crassa

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1731-1745

  Wu, Cheng ^a   Yang, Fei ^a   Smith, Kristina M ^b   Peterson, Matthew ^c   Dekhang, Rigzin ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Zucker, Jeremy ^d   Bredeweg, Erin L ^b   Mallappa, Chandrashekara ^e   Zhou, Xiaoying ^e   Lyubetskaya, Anna ^f   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^g   Galagan, James E ^c,d,f   Freitag, Michael ^b   Dunlap, Jay C ^e   Bell Pedersen, Deborah ^a   Sachs, Matthew S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^e DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Light; Neurospora; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOMEOSTASIS; LIGHT; MYCELIUM; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RIBOSOME;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

EID: 84907910933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.114.012617     Document Type: Article

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