The Complete Campylobacter jejuni Transcriptome during Colonization of a Natural Host Determined by RNAseq

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Taveirne, Michael E ^a   Theriot, Casey M ^a   Livny, Jonathan ^b   DiRita, Victor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CECUM; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHICKENS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, BACTERIAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84882719831     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073586     Document Type: Article

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