Helminth genome analysis: The current status of the filarial and schistosome genome projects

Parasitology

Volumn 118, Issue SUPPL., 1999, Pages

  Williams, S A ^a   Johnston, D A ^b   Aslett, Martin ^c   Bierwert, LouAnn ^c   Blaxter, Mark L ^c   Daub, Jennifer ^c   Foster, Jeremy ^c   Ganatra, Mehul ^c   Guiliano, David ^c   Haynes, Susan ^c   Jayaraman, Kunthala ^c   Kamal, Ibrahim H ^c   Kannan, K ^c   Laney, Sandra J ^c   Li, Wen ^c   Lizotte Waniewski, Michelle ^c   Lu, Wenhong ^c   Raghavan, Nithyakalyani ^c   Ramzy, Reda M R ^c   Rao, R V ^c   Saunders, Lori ^c   Scott, Alan L ^c   Slatko, Barton ^c   Supali, Taniawati ^c   Ware, Jennifer ^c   Azevedo, Vasco ^c   Brindley, Paul ^c   Correa De Oliviera, Guilherme ^c   Feng, Zheng ^c   Franco, Gloria R ^c   Hirai, Hiro ^c   Karim, Amr ^c   LoVerde, Philip T ^c   McManus, Don ^c   Merrick, Joe ^c   Pierce, Ray ^c   Rabelo, Elida ^c   Rollinson, David ^c   Saber, Mohamed ^c   Williams, David L ^c   more..

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Brugia; EST; Expressed sequence tag; Filarial nematode; Gene discovery; Genome analysis; Genome project; Informatics; Physical mapping; Schistosoma

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; VACCINE;

BRUGIA MALAYI; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG TARGETING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FILARIA; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HELMINTH; KARYOTYPE; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FILARIOIDEA; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME; HELMINTHS; SCHISTOSOMA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

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

EID: 0032814768     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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