Comparative genomics and transcriptomics of trait-gene association

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Pierlé, Sebastián A ^a   Dark, Michael J ^b,c   Dahmen, Dani ^a   Palmer, Guy H ^a   Brayton, Kelly A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Bacteria; Rickettsia; RNA seq; SNP

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; GENOMIC RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR ANDERSONI; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANAPLASMA; ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA RICKETTSII; RICKETTSIALES;

ANAPLASMA MARGINALE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84869868897     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-669     Document Type: Article

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