Whipworm genome and dual-species transcriptome analyses provide molecular insights into an intimate host-parasite interaction

Nature Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 693-700

  Foth, Bernardo J ^a   Tsai, Isheng J ^a,b   Reid, Adam J ^a   Bancroft, Allison J ^c   Nichol, Sarah ^a   Tracey, Alan ^a   Holroyd, Nancy ^a   Cotton, James A ^a   Stanley, Eleanor J ^a   Zarowiecki, Magdalena ^a   Liu, Jimmy Z ^a   Huckvale, Thomas ^a   Cooper, Philip J ^d,e   Grencis, Richard K ^c   Berriman, Matthew ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; CALMODULIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 22; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 9; LOPERAMIDE; LUCANTHONE; MEBENDAZOLE; MESSENGER RNA; SECRETORY IMMUNOGLOBULIN; TETRAHYDROLIPSTATIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME NUMBER; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MESENTERY LYMPH NODE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEX CHROMOSOME; TH1 CELL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS MURIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; MUS; NEMATODA; TRICHURIS MURIS; TRICHURIS TRICHIURA; VERMES;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, HELMINTH; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TH1 CELLS; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS;

EID: 84903542295     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3010     Document Type: Article

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