Comparative genomics of gene expression in the parasitic and free-living nematodes Strongyloides stercoralis and Caenorhabditis elegans

Genome Research

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 209-220

  Mitreva, Makedonka ^a   McCarter, James P ^a,b   Martin, John ^a   Dante, Mike ^a   Wylie, Todd ^a   Chiapelli, Brandi ^a,b   Pape, Deana ^a   Clifton, Sandra W ^a   Nutman, Thomas B ^c   Waterston, Robert H ^a,d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Divergence Inc   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; HELMINTH DNA; HELMINTH RNA;

ANIMAL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GROWTH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KNOCKOUT GENE; LARVA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; STRUCTURAL GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, HELMINTH; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, HELMINTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA; STRONGYLOIDES; STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS; VERMES;

EID: 10744220169     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1524804     Document Type: Review

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