The genome and transcriptome of Haemonchus contortus, a key model parasite for drug and vaccine discovery

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Laing, Roz ^a   Kikuchi, Taisei ^b,c   Martinelli, Axel ^b   Tsai, Isheng J ^b,c   Beech, Robin N ^d   Redman, Elizabeth ^e   Holroyd, Nancy ^b   Bartley, David J ^f   Beasley, Helen ^b   Britton, Collette ^a   Curran, David ^e   Devaney, Eileen ^a   Gilabert, Aude ^e   Hunt, Martin ^b   Jackson, Frank ^f   Johnston, Stephanie L ^a   Kryukov, Ivan ^e   Li, Keyu ^e   Morrison, Alison A ^f   Reid, Adam J ^b   Sargison, Neil ^g   Saunders, Gary I ^a,b   Wasmuth, James D ^e   Wolstenholme, Adrian ^h   Berriman, Matthew ^b   Gilleard, John S ^e   Cotton, James A ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; TRANSCRIPTOME; VACCINE; PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG TARGETING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROLOGY; NONHUMAN; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HAEMONCHOSIS; HAEMONCHUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VETERINARY;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA; OVIS ARIES; STRONGYLIDA;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME, HELMINTH; HAEMONCHIASIS; HAEMONCHUS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84883086002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-8-r88     Document Type: Article

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