First transcriptomic analysis of the economically important parasitic nematode, Trichostrongylus colubriformis, using a next-generation sequencing approach

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1199-1207

  Cantacessi, Cinzia ^a   Mitreva, Makedonka ^b   Campbell, Bronwyn E ^a   Hall, Ross S ^a   Young, Neil D ^a   Jex, Aaron R ^a   Ranganathan, Shoba ^c   Gasser, R B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ancylostoma secreted proteins; Bioinformatics; Next generation sequencing; Peptidases; Transcriptome; Trichostrongylus colubriformis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA, HELMINTH; DRUG RESISTANCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES; PROTEIN KINASES; RNA, HELMINTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS;

ANCYLOSTOMA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA; STRONGYLIDA; TRICHOSTRONGYLUS COLUBRIFORMIS;

EID: 77957293239     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.07.024     Document Type: Article

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