Use of genomic DNA as an indirect reference for identifying gender-associated transcripts in morphologically identical, but chromosomally distinct, Schistosoma mansoni cercariae

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Fitzpatrick, Jennifer M ^a   Protasio, Anna V ^a   McArdle, Andrew J ^a   Williams, Gary A ^b   Johnston, David A ^c   Hoffmann, Karl F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC Rosalind Franklin Centre for Genomics Research   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; HELMINTH DNA;

ARTICLE; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BIOMPHALARIA; CHROMOSOME; EVALUATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; PARASITOLOGY; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI;

ANIMALS; BIOMPHALARIA; CHROMOSOMES; DNA, HELMINTH; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MICE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 56149103901     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000323     Document Type: Article

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