MicroRNA profiling in the zoonotic parasite Echinococcus canadensis using a high-throughput approach

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Macchiaroli, Natalia ^a   Cucher, Marcela ^a   Zarowiecki, Magdalena ^b   Maldonado, Lucas ^a   Kamenetzky, Laura ^a   Rosenzvit, Mara Cecilia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cestode; Echinococcosis; Echinococcus canadensis; High throughput; microRNAs; Parasite; Platyhelminth

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 1 3P; MICRORNA 10 5P; MICRORNA 124A 3P; MICRORNA 124B 3P; MICRORNA 125 5P; MICRORNA 133 3P; MICRORNA 153 3P; MICRORNA 190 5P; MICRORNA 219 5P; MICRORNA 277 3P; MICRORNA 281 3P; MICRORNA 2A 3P; MICRORNA 2B 3P; MICRORNA 2C 3P; MICRORNA 307 3P; MICRORNA 31 5P; MICRORNA 3479 3P; MICRORNA 36 3P; MICRORNA 4988 3P; MICRORNA 71 5P; MICRORNA 745 3P; MICRORNA 7A 5P; MICRORNA 7B 5P; MICRORNA 8 3P; MICRORNA 87 3P; MICRORNA 9 5P; MICRORNA 96 5P; POLYADENYLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HELMINTH RNA;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS CANADENSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VALIDATION STUDY; ANIMAL; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PIG; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASE; SWINE DISEASE; VETERINARY;

CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; PLATYHELMINTHES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, HELMINTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 84928683340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-0686-8     Document Type: Article

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