The components of the Daphnia pulex immune system as revealed by complete genome sequencing

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  McTaggart, Seanna J ^a   Conlon, Claire ^a   Colbourne, John K ^b   Blaxter, Mark L ^a   Little, Tom J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CASPASE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHITINASE; DECTIN 1; GRAM NEGATIVE BINDING PROTEIN; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT KINASE 2; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN RECOGNITION PROTEIN; SCAVENGER; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR A; THIOESTER; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR ADAPTOR MOLECULE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAPHNIA; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; INNATE IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; GENOME; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ARTHROPODA; BRANCHIOPODA; CRUSTACEA; DAPHNIA; DAPHNIA PULEX; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; DAPHNIA; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, INSECT; GENOME; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 66149091989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-175     Document Type: Article

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