Genome and transcriptome of the porcine whipworm Trichuris suis

Nature Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 701-706

  Jex, Aaron R ^a   Nejsum, Peter ^b   Schwarz, Erich M ^a,c   Hu, Li ^d   Young, Neil D ^a   Hall, Ross S ^a   Korhonen, Pasi K ^a   Liao, Shengguang ^d   Thamsborg, Stig ^b   Xia, Jinquan ^d   Xu, Pengwei ^d   Wang, Shaowei ^d   Scheerlinck, Jean Pierre Y ^a   Hofmann, Andreas ^e   Sternberg, Paul W ^f,g   Wang, Jun ^b,d,h,i,j   Gasser, Robin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^d BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^e GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g California Institute of Technology HHMI   (United States)

^h KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

ⁱ MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; FEMALE; GENOME; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS SUIS;

SUIDAE; SUS; TRICHURIS; TRICHURIS SUIS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME, HELMINTH; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; SWINE; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 84903540511     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3012     Document Type: Article

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