RNAi effector diversity in nematodes

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Dalzell, Johnathan J ^a   McVeigh, Paul ^a   Warnock, Neil D ^a   Mitreva, Makedonka ^b   Bird, David McK ^c   Abad, Pierre ^d   Fleming, Colin C ^e   Day, Tim A ^f   Mousley, Angela ^a   Marks, Nikki J ^a   Maule, Aaron G ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CEMAGREF   (France)

^e AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; HELMINTH PROTEIN;

ANCYLOSTOMA CANINUM; ARGONAUTE 1 GENE; ARGONAUTE 2 GENE; ARGONAUTE GENE; ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS BRENNERI; CAENORHABDITIS BRIGGSAE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS JAPONICA; CAENORHABDITIS REMANEI; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTOR CELL; ESOPHAGOSTOMUM DENTATUM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; MELOIDOGYNE HAPLA; MELOIDOGYNE INCOGNITA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRISTIONCHUS PACIFICUS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STRONGYLOIDEA; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HELMINTH PROTEINS; NEMATODA; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 79959846596     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001176     Document Type: Article

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