Schistosome albumin is of host, not parasite, origin

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1201-1208

  DeMarco, Ricardo ^a   Mathieson, William ^a   Dillon, Gary P ^a   Alan Wilson, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Horizontal gene transfer; Polymerase chain reaction; Proteomics; Southern blotting

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

DNA; EGG; FLATWORM; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN; PROTEOMICS; RODENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ALBUMINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CRICETINAE; DNA, HELMINTH; GENE LIBRARY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

MAMMALIA; MESOCRICETUS AURATUS; MURINAE; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 34447642846     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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