Fungal RNA Biology covers a wide range of RNA-mediated biological mechanisms in yeasts and filamentous fungi, including organisms widely used as models for general aspects of eukaryotic biology, and of great importance in industrial applications, medicine and agriculture. Despite the diversity of the estimated one million fungal species (saprophytic, parasitic, and mutualistic), fungi share common features distinctive from plants and animals and have been grouped taxonomically as an independent eukaryotic kingdom.

In this book, 15 chapters written by experts in their fields, cover the RNA-dependent processes that take place in fungal cells ranging from formation of coding and non-coding RNAs to mRNA translation, ribosomal RNA biogenesis, gene silencing, RNA editing and epigenetic regulation.

This Important new work provides:

• Comprehensive overview of key RNA-dependent processes regulating fungal gene expression
• Concise presentation of the latest insights in the field
• Information from the most significant RNA database
• Authoritative knowledge by international experts in the field

Fungal RNA Biology

RNA Polymerase II-Dependent Transcription in Fungi and Its Interplay with mRNA Decay

Xenia Peñate and Sebastián Chávez

Pre-mRNA Splicing and the Spliceosome: Assembly, Catalysis, and Fidelity

Elizabeth A. Dunn and Stephen D. Rader

Fungal Pre-mRNA 30-End Processing

Aurelia Vavasseur and Yongsheng Shi

mRNA Export

Alexandra Hackmann and Heike Krebber

mRNA Translation: Fungal Variations on a Eukaryotic Theme

Tobias von der Haar and Leoš Shivaya Valášek

mRNA Localization

Balaji T. Moorthy and Ralf-Peter Jansen

mRNA Degradation and Decay

Micheline Fromont-Racine and Cosmin Saveanu

Cytoplasmic mRNA Surveillance Pathways

Zaineb Fourati and Marc Graille

Making Ribosomes: Pre-rRNA Transcription and Processing

Kathleen L. McCann and Susan J. Baserga

Biogenesis and Evolution of Functional tRNAs

David Piñeyro, Adrian Gabriel Torres and Lluis Ribas de Pouplana

Small RNA-Mediated Gene Silencing in Neurospora

Yunkun Dang, Zhenyu Zhang and Yi Liu

The RNAi Machinery in Mucorales: The Emerging Role of Endogenous Small RNAs

Victoriano Garre, Francisco E. Nicolás, Santiago Torres-Martínez and Rosa M. Ruiz-Vázquez

Regulation of Pericentric Heterochromatin by ncRNA in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Mikel Zaratiegui

Approaches for Dissecting RNA-Binding Protein Networks

Ana M. Matia-González and André P. Gerber

Bioinformatics Tools for Next-Generation RNA Sequencing Analysis

Marco Marconi, Julio Rodriguez-Romero, Ane Sesma and Mark D. Wilkinson

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