Protein variation in blood-dwelling schistosome worms generated by differential splicing of micro-exon gene transcripts

Genome Research

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1112-1121

  DeMarco, Ricardo ^a,b   Mathieson, William ^a,d   Manuel, Sophia J ^a   Dillon, Gary P ^a,c   Curwen, Rachel S ^a   Ashton, Peter D ^a   Ivens, Alasdair C ^c,e   Berriman, Matthew ^c   Verjovski Almeida, Sergio ^b   Wilson, R Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Fios Genomics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOGENICITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EXONS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEOMICS; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

MAMMALIA; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; VERMES;

EID: 77955132004     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.100099.109     Document Type: Article

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