Analysis of gene expression from the Wolbachia genome of a filarial nematode supports both metabolic and defensive roles within the symbiosis

Genome Research

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2467-2477

  Darby, Alistair C ^a   Armstrong, Stuart D ^a   Bah, Germanus S ^a,b   Kaur, Gaganjot ^c   Hughes, Margaret A ^a   Kay, Suzanne M ^a   Koldkjær, Pia ^a   Rainbow, Lucille ^a   Radford, Alan D ^a   Blaxter, Mark L ^c   Tanya, Vincent N ^b   Trees, Alexander J ^a   Cordaux, Richard ^d   Wastling, Jonathan M ^a   Makepeace, Benjamin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Regional Centre of Wakwa   (Cameroon)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEME; RIBOFLAVIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM LINE; GROWTH RATE; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; HOST; MALE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; MITOCHONDRION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, HELMINTH; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MALE; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PROTEOMICS; RIBOFLAVIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SYMBIOSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME; UP-REGULATION; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIDAE; PROTEOBACTERIA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84868113800     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.138420.112     Document Type: Article

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