It's No Fluke: The Planarian as a Model for Understanding Schistosomes

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Collins III, James J ^a   Newmark, Phillip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FACTOR Y;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SPOROCYST; TREMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; TURBELLARIA;

EID: 84884809322     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003396     Document Type: Article

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