A comparative study of small RNAs in Toxoplasma gondii of distinct genotypes

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Jielin ^a   Liu, Xiaolei ^a   Jia, Boyin ^a   Lu, Huijun ^a   Peng, Shuai ^a   Piao, Xianyu ^b   Hou, Nan ^b   Cai, Pengfei ^b   Yin, Jigang ^a   Jiang, Ning ^a   Chen, Qijun ^a,b  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOTYPE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SEQUENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOTYPE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICE; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, SMALL UNTRANSLATED; TOXOPLASMA;

AVES; MAMMALIA; METAZOA; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

EID: 84865588756     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-186     Document Type: Article

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