Genome of the human hookworm Necator americanus

Nature Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 261-269

  Tang, Yat T ^a   Gao, Xin ^a   Rosa, Bruce A ^a   Abubucker, Sahar ^a   Hallsworth Pepin, Kymberlie ^a   Martin, John ^a   Tyagi, Rahul ^a   Heizer, Esley ^a   Zhang, Xu ^a   Bhonagiri Palsikar, Veena ^a   Minx, Patrick ^a   Warren, Wesley C ^a   Wang, Qi ^a   Zhan, Bin ^b,c   Hotez, Peter J ^b,c   Sternberg, Paul W ^d,e   Dougall, Annette ^f   Gaze, Soraya Torres ^f   Mulvenna, Jason ^g   Sotillo, Javier ^f   Ranganathan, Shoba ^h,i   Rabelo, Elida M ^j   Wilson, Richard K ^a   Felgner, Philip L ^k   Bethony, Jeffrey ^l   Hawdon, John M ^l   Gasser, Robin B ^m   Loukas, Alex ^f   Mitreva, Makedonka ^a   more..

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^h MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

ⁱ NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^j FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; IMMUNOMODULATOR PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERINE PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD CLOTTING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA BINDING; EOSINOPHIL; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HOOKWORM INFECTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOBIOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; INTRON; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DIET; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; NECATOR AMERICANUS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, HELMINTH; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NECATOR AMERICANUS; NECATORIASIS; PREGNANCY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84895883455     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2875     Document Type: Article

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