Localization of Wolbachia-like gene transcripts and peptides in adult Onchocerca flexuosa worms indicates tissue specific expression

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mcnulty, Samantha N ^a   Fischer, Kerstin ^a   Curtis, Kurt C ^a   Weil, Gary J ^a   Brattig, Norbert W ^b   Fischer, Peter U ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Filariasis; horizontal gene transfer; immunohistology; in situ hybridization; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRUGIA MALAYI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA FLEXUOSA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SPERM; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; WESTERN BLOTTING; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ONCHOCERCA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WOLBACHIA;

ENDOBACTERIA; ONCHOCERCA; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84871675154     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-2     Document Type: Article

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