Isolation and characterisation of sex-specific transcripts from Oesophagostomum dentatum by RNA arbitrarily-primed PCR

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 217-224

  Boag, Peter R ^a,c   Newton, Susan E ^a   Hansen, Niels Peter ^b   Christensen, Charlotte M ^b   Nansen, Peter ^b   Gasser, Robin B ^c  

^a VIC INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL SCIENCE   (Australia)

^b Danish Ctr for Exp Parasitology   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developmental expression; Differential display; Expressed sequence tag; Oesophagostomum dentatum; Parasitic nematodes; Sex specific expression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; NEMATODE; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; STRONGYLOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OESOPHAGOSTOMIASIS; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SWINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; OESOPHAGOSTOMUM DENTATUM; PROTOZOA; STRONGYLIDA; STRONGYLOIDEA;

EID: 0034108944     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-6851(00)00217-6     Document Type: Article

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