The repertoire of G protein-coupled receptors in the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni and the model organism Schmidtea mediterranea

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zamanian, Mostafa ^a   Kimber, Michael J ^a   McVeigh, Paul ^b   Carlson, Steve A ^a   Maule, Aaron G ^b   Day, Tim A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRIZZLED PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; RHODOPSIN; SECRETIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TURBELLARIA; ANIMAL; METABOLISM;

EUKARYOTA; PLANARIA; PLATYHELMINTHES; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMATIDAE; SCHMIDTEA MEDITERRANEA;

ANIMALS; PLANARIANS; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

EID: 82655177647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-596     Document Type: Article

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