Parasitic castration by the digenian trematode Allopodocotyle sp. alters gene expression in the brain of the host mollusc Haliotis asinina

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 3769-3774

  Rice, Tamika ^a   McGraw, Elizabeth ^a   O'Brien, Elizabeth K ^a   Reverter, Antonio ^b   Jackson, Daniel J ^a   Degnan, Bernard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digenean; Haliotis; Hox; Pax; POU; Sox; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; FURIN; GENE PRODUCT; HOX PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PHENYLALANYLMETHIONYLARGINYLPHENYLALANINAMIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOPODOCOTYLE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; HALIOTIS ASININA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MOLLUSC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TREMATODE; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLLUSCA; NEUROPEPTIDES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TREMATODA;

ALLOPODOCOTYLE; ANIMALIA; HALIOTIS ASININA; MOLLUSCA; TREMATODA; VETIGASTROPODA;

EID: 33745164836     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.05.068     Document Type: Article

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