Comparative genetics and genomics of nematodes: Genome structure, development, and lifestyle

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-20

  Sommer, Ralf J ^a   Streit, Adrian ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Nematodes; Parasite

Indexed keywords

ASCARIS SUUM; BRUGIA MALAYI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC NEMATODE; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MICROPARASITE; NEMATODE; PARASITISM; PLANT PARASITIC PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRONGYLOIDES RATTI; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HELMINTH; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; NEMATODA; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; NEMATODA;

EID: 80755144017     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110410-132417     Document Type: Review

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