De Novo Assembly of Mud Loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus) Skin Transcriptome to Identify Putative Genes Involved in Immunity and Epidermal Mucus Secretion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Long, Yong ^a   Li, Qing ^a   Zhou, Bolan ^a,b   Song, Guili ^a   Li, Tao ^a   Cui, Zongbin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE; MUCIN; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE; SNARE PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; ENZYME; MICROSATELLITE DNA; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN BINDING; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; EPIDERMIS; FISH; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNITY; LEUKOCYTE MIGRATION; MISGURNUS ANGUILLICAUDATUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUCUS; MUCUS SECRETION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SKIN; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYPRINIFORMES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; SECRETION (PROCESS); TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYPRINIFORMES; ENZYMES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; IMMUNITY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MUCUS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SKIN; SNARE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84874282170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056998     Document Type: Article

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