Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analyses of a Wolbachia-Free Filarial Parasite Provide Evidence of Trans-Kingdom Horizontal Gene Transfer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  McNulty, Samantha N ^a   Abubucker, Sahar ^a   Simon, Gabriel M ^a   Mitreva, Makedonka ^a   McNulty, Nathan P ^a   Fischer, Kerstin ^a   Curtis, Kurt C ^a   Brattig, Norbert W ^b   Weil, Gary J ^a   Fischer, Peter U ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WOLBACHIA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BRUGIA MALAYI; CELL LYSATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEMATODE GENE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA FLEXUOSA; ORGANISMS BY METABOLISM; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WESTERN BLOTTING; WOLBACHIA; WORM;

ANIMALS; BRUGIA MALAYI; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENOME; GERBILLINAE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ONCHOCERCA; PARASITES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOMICS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME; WOLBACHIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRUGIA MALAYI; ENDOBACTERIA; FILARIA; ONCHOCERCA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84866879504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045777     Document Type: Article

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