Schistosoma mansoni genome project: An update

Parasitology International

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 183-192

  LoVerde, Philip T ^a   Hirai, Hirohisa ^b   Merrick, Joseph M ^a   Lee, Norman H ^c,d   El Sayed, Najib ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

BAC, bacterial artificial chromosome; CDS, coding sequences; Chromosome mapping; EST, expressed sequence tag; ET, expressed transcript; Gene discovery; Genomics; GO, gene ontology; RT PCR, reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; Schistosoma mansoni

Indexed keywords

SCHISTOSOMA VACCINE;

ACCELERATION; BIODIVERSITY; CHROMOSOME MAP; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG TARGETING; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HAPLOIDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HUMANS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 1842735271     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2004.01.009     Document Type: Review

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