A genome sequence survey of the filarial nematode Brugia malayi: Repeats, gene discovery, and comparative genomics

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 215-227

  Whitton, Claire ^a   Daub, Jennifer ^a   Quail, Mike ^b   Hall, Neil ^b   Foster, Jeremy ^c   Ware, Jennifer ^c   Ganatra, Mehul ^c   Slatko, Barton ^c   Barrell, Bart ^b   Blaxter, Mark ^a  

^a Institution of Cell   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

Author keywords

BAC; bacterial artificial chromosome; basic local alignment search tool; BLAST; BMC; BMG; Brugia malayi EST cluster; Brugia malayi genomic sequence cluster; CLOBB; clustering on the basis of BLAST; EST; expressed sequence tag; FGP; filarial genome project; LSU

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BRUGIA MALAYI; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA LIBRARY; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; DNA, HELMINTH; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUGIA; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 4644325711     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2004.05.013     Document Type: Article

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