Contrasting host-pathogen interactions and genome evolution in two generalist and specialist microsporidian pathogens of mosquitoes

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Desjardins, Christopher A ^a   Sanscrainte, Neil D ^b   Goldberg, Jonathan M ^a   Heiman, David ^a   Young, Sarah ^a   Zeng, Qiandong ^a   Madhani, Hiten D ^c   Becnel, James J ^b   Cuomo, Christina A ^a  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DEFENSIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; FUNGAL RNA;

ADAPTATION; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DISEASE VECTOR; GENERALIST; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOSQUITO; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; PROTEIN; SIGNALING; SPECIALIST;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EDHAZARDIA AEDIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; METABOLITE; MICROSPORIDIA; MICROSPORIDIAN SPORE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN SECRETION; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VAVRAIA CULICIS; AEDES; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY;

EDHAZARDIA AEDIS; MICROSPORIDIA; VAVRAIA CULICIS;

AEDES; ANIMALS; GENOME, FUNGAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MICROSPORIDIA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, FUNGAL;

EID: 84929340368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8121     Document Type: Article

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