The genome and transcriptome of the enteric parasite Entamoeba invadens, a model for encystation

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Ehrenkaufer, Gretchen M ^a   Weedall, Gareth D ^b   Williams, Daryl ^b   Lorenzi, Hernan A ^c   Caler, Elisabet ^c   Hall, Neil ^b,d   Singh, Upinder ^a,e  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOLIPASE D; PROTOZOAL RNA; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; ENCYSTATION; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA INVADENS; EXCYSTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING AND GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENOME ANALYSIS; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RNA MODIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAGE CONVERSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; ENTAMOEBA; EXON; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRON; METABOLISM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OOCYTE; PARASITE; PROTEIN DATABASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; TIME;

ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA INVADENS; EUKARYOTA; GIARDIA; NEMATODA; TOXOPLASMA;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL SHAPE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DNA, INTERGENIC; ENTAMOEBA; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; OVUM; PARASITES; PHOSPHOLIPASE D; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, MESSENGER; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84880926644     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-7-r77     Document Type: Article

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