Genome-wide transcriptional response of Silurana (Xenopus) tropicalis to infection with the deadly chytrid fungus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Rosenblum, Erica Bree ^a,b   Poorten, Thomas J ^a   Settles, Matthew ^c   Murdoch, Gordon K ^a   Robert, Jacques ^d   Maddox, Nicole ^b   Eisen, Michael B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; SILURANA TROPICALIS; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LIVER; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; SPLEEN; XENOPUS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LIVER; MYCOSES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; SPLEEN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS;

EID: 68349128437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006494     Document Type: Article

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