Identification and analysis of immune-related transcriptome in Asian seabass Lates calcarifer

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Xia, Jun H ^a   Yue, Gen H ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DOWN REGULATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; LATES CALCARIFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPLEEN; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PERCIFORMES; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LATES CALCARIFER; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PERCIFORMES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 77952968859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-356     Document Type: Article

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