Transcriptome survey of the anhydrobiotic tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum in comparison with Hypsibius dujardini and Richtersius coronifer

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mali, Brahim ^a   Grohme, Markus A ^a   Förster, Frank ^b   Dandekar, Thomas ^b   Schnölzer, Martina ^c   Reuter, Dirk ^d   Wełnicz, Weronika ^a   Schill, Ralph O ^e   Frohme, Marcus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WILDAU   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d ONCOSCIENCE AG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; CHAPERONE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE SUBUNIT I; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; PEROXIREDOXIN; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THIOREDOXIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; TREHALOSE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANHYDROBIOSIS; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESICCATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; HYPSIBIUS DUJARDINI; MILNESIUM TARDIGRADUM; NONHUMAN; RICHTERSIUS CORONIFER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; INVERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; HYPSIBIUS DUJARDINI; MILNESIUM TARDIGRADUM; RICHTERSIUS CORONIFER; TARDIGRADA;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DESICCATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; INVERTEBRATES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77951159431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-168     Document Type: Article

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