Gene expression differences among three Neurospora species reveal genes required for sexual reproduction in Neurospora crassa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Lehr, Nina A ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a   Li, Ning ^a   Hewitt, David A ^b,c   López Giráldez, Francesc ^a   Trail, Frances ^d   Townsend, Jeffrey P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wagner Free Institute of Science   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; CINNAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HYGROMYCIN; HYGROMYCIN B;

ARTICLE; ASCOSPORE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; FRUITING BODY; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; LIFE HISTORY; MEIOSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NEUROSPORA DISCRETA; NEUROSPORA TETRASPERMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PERITHECIUM; PHENOTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTOR;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA;

CINNAMATES; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FRUITING BODIES, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HYGROMYCIN B; MUTATION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84908192093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110398     Document Type: Article

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