The genome of the heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis, reveals drug and vaccine targets

FASEB Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4650-4661

  Godel, Christelle ^a,b,c   Kumar, Sujai ^d   Koutsovoulos, Georgios ^d   Ludin, Philipp ^a,b   Nilsson, Daniel ^f   Comandatore, Francesco ^g   Wrobel, Nicola ^e   Thompson, Marian ^e   Schmid, Christoph D ^a,b   Goto, Susumu ^h   Bringaud, Frédéric ⁱ   Wolstenholme, Adrian ^j   Bandi, Claudio ^g   Epe, Christian ^c   Kaminsky, Ronald ^c   Blaxter, Mark ^d,e   Maser, Pascal ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Novartis Animal Health Centre de Recherches   (Switzerland)

^d Institute of Evolutionary Biology   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^h KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ CNRS University Bordeaux Segalen   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Filaria; Transposon; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; DNA; EMODEPSIDE; FLUBENDAZOLE; HEME; IVERMECTIN; LEVAMISOLE; MEBENDAZOLE; MILBEMYCIN; MONEPANTEL; MOXIDECTIN; SELAMECTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG TARGETING; ENDOSYMBIONT; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HEME SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHATIC FILARIASIS; MALE; MAMMAL; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; TRANSPOSON; UNITED STATES; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; DIROFILARIASIS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, HELMINTH; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOME; RNA, HELMINTH; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME; VACCINES; WOLBACHIA;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; FILARIA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84868274725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.12-205096     Document Type: Article

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