Exploring the Schistosoma mansoni adult male transcriptome using RNA-seq

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-31

  Almeida, Giulliana Tessarin ^a   Amaral, Murilo Sena ^a   Beckedorff, Felipe Cesar Ferrarezi ^a   Kitajima, João Paulo ^b   DeMarco, Ricardo ^a   Verjovski Almeida, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL ISRAELITA ALBERT EINSTEIN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Gene discovery; Genome annotation; Micro exon genes; RNA seq; Schistosoma mansoni; Trematode

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; RNA SEQUENCE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CONTIG MAPPING; EXONS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, HELMINTH; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, HELMINTH; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TREMATODA;

EID: 84865570158     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2011.06.010     Document Type: Article

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