MRNA-Seq and microarray development for the Grooved carpet shell clam, Ruditapes decussatus: A functional approach to unravel host -parasite interaction

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Leite, Ricardo B ^a,f   Milan, Massimo ^b   Coppe, Alessandro ^b   Bortoluzzi, Stefania ^b   dos Anjos, António ^a,c   Reinhardt, Richard ^d   Saavedra, Carlos ^e   Patarnello, Tomaso ^b   Cancela, M L ^a   Bargelloni, Luca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c ISMAT Instituto Manuel Teixeira Gomes ^*  (Portugal)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^e CSIC Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre de la Sal IATS   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLASE; LECTIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA MICROARRAY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERKINSOSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RUDITAPES; RUDITAPES DECUSSATUS; ALVEOLATA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIVALVE; CHEMISTRY; CONTIG MAPPING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BIVALVIA; PERKINSUS; PERKINSUS OLSENI; VENERUPIS (RUDITAPES) DECUSSATUS; VENERUPIS (RUDITAPES) PHILIPPINARUM;

ALVEOLATA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; CONTIG MAPPING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENETIC VARIATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LECTINS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84886388970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-741     Document Type: Article

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