From yeast to hypha: Defining transcriptomic signatures of the morphological switch in the dimorphic fungal pathogen Ophiostoma novo-ulmi

BMC Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Nigg, M ^a   Bernier, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

MAPK cascade; Ophiostoma novo ulmi; RNAseq; Time course experiment; Yeast to hypha transition

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BCY1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; FLO8 GENE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MAPK GENE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMA NOVO ULMI; PDE2 GENE; PHD1 GENE; PKA GENE; RIM GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOK2 GENE; TK1 GENE; TK2 GENE; TK3 GENE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; YAK1 GENE; YEAST; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HYPHAE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; OPHIOSTOMA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84996539890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3251-8     Document Type: Article

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