No more non-model species: The promise of next generation sequencing for comparative immunology

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 56-66

  Dheilly, Nolwenn M ^a,b   Adema, Coen ^c   Raftos, David A ^d   Gourbal, Benjamin ^a,b   Grunau, Christoph ^a,b   Du Pasquier, Louis ^e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Association studies; Diversification; Epigenetic; Gene expression; Immune system; Transcriptome sequencing

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTONE MODIFICATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE RESPONSE GENE; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION;

ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY; ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84896738383     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2014.01.022     Document Type: Review

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