Discovery of immune-related genes expressed in hemocytes of the tarantula spider Acanthoscurria gomesiana

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 545-556

  Lorenzini, Daniel M ^a   Silva, Pedro I Da ^b   Soares, Marcelo B ^c   Arruda, Paulo ^d,e   Setubal, João ^d,f   Daffre, Sirlei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^e Alellyx Applied Genomics   (Brazil)

^f VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Coagulation; Expressed sequence tags (ESTs); Hemocyanin; Hemocytes; Innate immunity; Lectins; Serine proteases

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEMOCYANIN; LECTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOSKELETON; DNA LIBRARY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; SEQUENCE TAGGED SITE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIDER;

ACANTHOSCURRIA GOMESIANA; ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; TARANTULA;

EID: 33644805393     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2005.09.001     Document Type: Article

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