The genome and transcriptome of the zoonotic hookworm Ancylostoma ceylanicum identify infection-specific gene families

Nature Genetics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 416-422

  Schwarz, Erich M ^a   Hu, Yan ^b,c   Antoshechkin, Igor ^d   Miller, Melanie M ^c   Sternberg, Paul W ^d,e   Aroian, Raffi V ^b,c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c SECTION OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (United States)

^d California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION ASSOCIATED SECRETED PROTEIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; LECTIN; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANCYLOSTOMA CEYLANICUM; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; UPREGULATION; YOUNG ADULT; ANCYLOSTOMA; ANIMAL; GENETICS; GENOME; HOOKWORM; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZOONOSIS;

ANCYLOSTOMA CEYLANICUM; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

ANCYLOSTOMA; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ANCYLOSTOMIASIS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENOME, HELMINTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84925862867     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3237     Document Type: Article

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