The Schistosoma gene discovery program: State of the art

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 453-463

  Franco, Glória R ^a   Valadão, Analina F ^a   Azevedo, Vasco ^a   Rabelo, Élida M L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Cluster analysis; Differential gene expression; Expressed Sequence Tags; Gene discovery; Schistosoma Genome Project

Indexed keywords

GENOME; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA;

SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 0034103067     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(00)00020-5     Document Type: Article

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