Widespread Polycistronic Transcripts in Fungi Revealed by Single-Molecule mRNA Sequencing

Sean P. Gordon; Elizabeth Tseng; Asaf Salamov; Jiwei Zhang; Xiandong Meng; Zhiying Zhao; Dongwan Kang; Jason Underwood; Igor V. Grigoriev; Melania Figueroa; Jonathan S. Schilling; Feng Chen; Zhong Wang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0132628

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Widespread Polycistronic Transcripts in Fungi Revealed by Single-Molecule mRNA Sequencing

Sean P. Gordon ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sean P. Gordon, Elizabeth Tseng

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
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Elizabeth Tseng ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Sean P. Gordon, Elizabeth Tseng

Affiliation Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, United States of America
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Asaf Salamov,

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
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Jiwei Zhang,

Affiliation Department of Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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Xiandong Meng,

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
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Zhiying Zhao,

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
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Dongwan Kang,

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
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Jason Underwood,

Current Address: Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, United States of America
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Igor V. Grigoriev,

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
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Melania Figueroa,

Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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Jonathan S. Schilling,

Affiliation Department of Bioproducts & Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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Feng Chen,

Affiliation Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America
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Zhong Wang

* E-mail: zhongwang@lbl.gov

Affiliations Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America, School of Natural Sciences, University of California at Merced, Merced, California, United States of America
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Widespread Polycistronic Transcripts in Fungi Revealed by Single-Molecule mRNA Sequencing

Sean P. Gordon,
Elizabeth Tseng,
Asaf Salamov,
Jiwei Zhang,
Xiandong Meng,
Zhiying Zhao,
Dongwan Kang,
Jason Underwood,
Igor V. Grigoriev,
Melania Figueroa

Published: July 15, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132628

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