Establishing transgenic schistosomes

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Mann, Victoria H ^a   Suttiprapa, Sutas ^a   Rinaldi, Gabriel ^a,b   Brindley, Paul J ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOQUÍMICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RETROVIRUS VECTOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA INTEGRATION; EGG LAYING; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MIRACIDIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; TRANSGENICS; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 80052415908     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001230     Document Type: Article

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