Gender-specific gene expression in Brugia malayi

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 247-257

  Michalski, Michelle L ^a   Weil, Gary J ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brugia; Differential display; Expressed sequence tag; Gender; Gene expression; Nematode; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; ION CHANNEL; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EGG SHELL; ELECTRONICS; ELEPHANTIASIS; FILARIASIS; GENDER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BRUGIA MALAYI; COMPUTERS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; FILARIASIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERBILLINAE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

BRUGIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; NEMATODA;

EID: 0032739284     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(99)00149-8     Document Type: Article

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