The genome and life-stage specific transcriptomes of Globodera pallida elucidate key aspects of plant parasitism by a cyst nematode

Genome Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Cotton, James A ^a   Lilley, Catherine J ^b   Jones, Laura M ^b   Kikuchi, Taisei ^d,e   Reid, Adam J ^a   Thorpe, Peter ^b,c   Tsai, Isheng J ^a,e,f   Beasley, Helen ^a   Blok, Vivian ^c   Cock, Peter J A ^c   den Akker, Sebastian Eves van ^b,c   Holroyd, Nancy ^a   Hunt, Martin ^a   Mantelin, Sophie ^c   Naghra, Hardeep ^a,g   Pain, Arnab ^a,h   Palomares Rius, Juan E ^c,i   Zarowiecki, Magdalena ^a   Berriman, Matthew ^a   Jones, John T ^c   Urwin, Peter E ^b   more..

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^f BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^h KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

ⁱ INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE SYNTHASE; SPROUTY PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLOBODERA PALLIDA; GLUTATHIONE SYNTHETASE GENE; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT ROOT; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES INVASION; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TYLENCHOIDEA; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, HELMINTH; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; TRANSCRIPTOME; TYLENCHOIDEA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84897947420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2014-15-3-r43     Document Type: Article

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