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Transcriptome analysis of the honey bee fungal pathogen, Ascosphaera apis: implications for host pathogenesis.
BMC genomics - 29 Jun 2012
Cornman R Scott, Bennett Anna K, Murray K Daniel, Evans Jay D, Elsik Christine G, Aronstein Kate
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BACKGROUND: We present a comprehensive transcriptome analysis of the fungus Ascosphaera apis, an economically important pathogen of the Western honey bee (Apis mellifera) that causes chalkbrood disease. Our goals were to further annotate the A. apis reference genome and to identify genes that are candidates for being differentially expressed during host infection versus axenic culture. RESULTS: We compared A....
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