Parasitic helminth genomics

Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue SUPPL., 1999, Pages

  Blaxter, M ^a   Aslett, M ^a,b   Guiliano, D ^a   Daub, J ^a   Williams, Steven A ^c,d,e,f,g,h   Jayaraman, Kunthala ^c,d,e,f,g,h   Ramzy, Reda ^c,d,e,f,g,h   Scott, Alan ^c,d,e,f,g,h   Supali, Tania ^c,d,e,f,g,h   Slatko, Barton ^c,d,e,f,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^h NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Brugia malayi; Caenorhabditis elegans; Expressed sequence tag; Genome mapping; Genomics; Parasitic genomes; Schistosoma

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; VACCINE;

BRUGIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA LIBRARY; DRUG TARGETING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FILARIA; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HELMINTH; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RNA SEQUENCE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

BRUGIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FILARIA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; SCHISTOSOMA; VERMES;

EID: 0032804209     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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