New and Improved Techniques for the Study of Pathogenic Fungi

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 35-50

  Cairns, Timothy C ^a   Studholme, David J ^b   Talbot, Nicholas J ^b   Haynes, Ken ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antifungal; Comparative genomics; Functional genomics; Fungal pathogen; Genome editing

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROL STRATEGY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG RESEARCH; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOME EDITING; GENOMICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTION CONTROL; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; ROBOTICS; BIOLOGY; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT DISEASE; PROCEDURES; VIRULENCE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MYCOSES; PLANT DISEASES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84955353892     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: 18784380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2015.09.008     Document Type: Review

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