The Brazilian contribution to the study of the Schistosoma mansoni transcriptome

Acta Tropica

Volumn 108, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 179-182

  Oliveira, Guilherme ^a,b   Franco, Glória ^c   Verjovski Almeida, Sergio ^d  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Programa de Pos Graduacao e Pesquisa   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Expressed sequence tags (ESTs); Genome; Schistosoma mansoni; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

DNA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; PARASITE; POLYMORPHISM;

BIOINFORMATICS; BRAZIL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENOME; NONHUMAN; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHISTOSOMA HEMATOBIUM; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSPOSON;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 57049105748     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2008.04.022     Document Type: Review

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