Worms and flies as genetically tractable animal models to study host-pathogen interactions

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 3833-3841

  Mylonakis, Eleftherios ^a   Aballay, Alejandro ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

APOPTOSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WORM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BACTERIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; MODELS, ANIMAL; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 21544439035     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.7.3833-3841.2005     Document Type: Short Survey

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