The genome and developmental transcriptome of the strongylid nematode Haemonchus contortus

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Schwarz, Erich M ^a,b,c   Korhonen, Pasi K ^b   Campbell, Bronwyn E ^b   Young, Neil D ^b   Jex, Aaron R ^b   Jabbar, Abdul ^b   Hall, Ross S ^b   Mondal, Alinda ^b   Howe, Adina C ^d   Pell, Jason ^e   Hofmann, Andreas ^f   Boag, Peter R ^g   Zhu, Xing Quan ^h   Gregory, T R ⁱ   Loukas, Alex ^j   Williams, Brian A ^a   Antoshechkin, Igor ^a   Brown, C T ^d,e   Sternberg, Paul W ^a   Gasser, Robin B ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^e Michigan State University   (United States)

^f GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^j JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEMATODAL AGENT; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS VACCINE; PEPTIDASE; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINE; ANTHELMINTIC AGENT; HELMINTH PROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TARGETING; FEEDING; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HAEMONCHOSIS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; LIFE CYCLE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTION; REPRODUCTION; STRONGYLIDA; TISSUES; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HAEMONCHUS; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; VETERINARY;

HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; STRONGYLIDA;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, HELMINTH; HAEMONCHIASIS; HAEMONCHUS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84883129090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-8-r89     Document Type: Article

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