Transcriptional changes in the hookworm, Ancylostoma caninum, during the transition from a free-living to a parasitic larva

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Datu, Bennett J D ^a,b   Gasser, Robin B ^c   Nagaraj, Shivashankar H ^d   Ong, Eng K ^e   O'Donoghue, Peter ^b   McInnes, Russell ^f   Ranganathan, Shoba ^d   Loukas, Alex ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^f AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH RNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEINASE;

ANCYLOSTOMA CANINUM; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA MICROARRAY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVAL STAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SUPPRESSION SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; DOG; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DOGS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 48949107733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000130     Document Type: Article

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