De novo assembly and transcriptome characterization: Novel insights into the natural resistance mechanisms of Microtus fortis against Schistosoma japonicum

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hu, Yuan ^a,b   Xu, Yuxin ^a,b   Lu, Weiyuan ^a,b   Yuan, Zhongying ^a,b   Quan, Hong ^a,b   Shen, Yujuan ^a,b   Cao, Jianping ^a,b  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b WHO Collaborating Center for Malaria Schistosomiasis and Filariasis   (China)

Author keywords

Microtus fortis; Non permissive host; RNA seq; Schistosoma japonicum

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICROTUS; MICROTUS FORTIS; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARVICOLINAE; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIVER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LIVER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84903212124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-417     Document Type: Article

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