Functional analysis of putative operons in Brugia malayi

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-71

  Liu, Canhui ^a   Oliveira, Ana ^b   Chauhan, Chitra ^a   Ghedin, Elodie ^c   Unnasch, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biolositics; Filariasis; Operon; Trans splicing; Transfection

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; MESSENGER RNA;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENOME; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MUTATION; RNA;

ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RESTRICTION SITE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING; TRANS SPLICING;

ANIMALS; BRUGIA MALAYI; FILARIASIS; GENES, REPORTER; GENOME; HELMINTH PROTEINS; LUCIFERASES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-SPLICING; TRANSFECTION;

BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; RENILLA; RENILLA LUCIFERASE;

EID: 72049117092     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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