Diversity in parasitic nematode genomes: The microRNAs of Brugia pahangi and Haemonchus contortus are largely novel

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Winter, Alan D ^a   Weir, William ^a   Hunt, Martin ^b   Berriman, Matthew ^b   Gilleard, John S ^c   Devaney, Eileen ^a   Britton, Collette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ADULT ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRUGIA PAHANGI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERM LINE; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; LARVAL STAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSPOSON; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAEMONCHUS; LARVA; METABOLISM;

BRUGIA PAHANGI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA;

ANIMALS; BRUGIA PAHANGI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES, HELMINTH; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HELMINTH; HAEMONCHUS; LARVA; MICRORNAS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84855270708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-4     Document Type: Article

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