Novel insights into the transcriptome of Dirofilaria immitis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Fu, Yan ^a   Lan, Jingchao ^b   Zhang, Zhihe ^b   Hou, Rong ^b   Wu, Xuhang ^a   Yang, Deying ^a   Zhang, Runhui ^a   Zheng, Wanpeng ^a   Nie, Huaming ^a   Xie, Yue ^a   Yan, Ning ^a   Yang, Zhi ^b   Wang, Chengdong ^b   Luo, Li ^b   Liu, Li ^b   Gu, Xiaobin ^a   Wang, Shuxian ^a   Peng, Xuerong ^a   Yang, Guangyou ^a  

^a SICHUAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DOGS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INTESTINES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; MAMMALIA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84864225740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041639     Document Type: Article

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