Cracks in the shell - Zooming in on eggshell formation in the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 215, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 261-267

  Ebersberger, Ingo ^a   Knobloch, Jürgen ^a   Kunz, Werner ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational molecular biology; Egg formation; Schistosoma genetics; Schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

EGG PROTEIN; PROTEIN P14; PROTEIN P19; PROTEIN P48; PROTEOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG SHELL; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREMATODE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONORCHIS SINENSIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EGG PROTEINS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPISTHORCHIS; SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 18644378809     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-005-0467-z     Document Type: Article

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