Drosophila anti-nematode and antibacterial immune regulators revealed by RNA-Seq

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Castillo, Julio C ^a,b   Creasy, Todd ^c   Kumari, Priti ^c   Shetty, Amol ^c   Shokal, Upasana ^a   Tallon, Luke J ^c   Eleftherianos, Ioannis ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Heterorhabditis; Immunity; Infection; Parasitism; Photorhabdus; RNA sequencing; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETERORHABDITIS; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; MALE; NEMATODE; NEMATODIASIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PHOTORHABDUS; RNA SEQUENCE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HETERORHABDITIS; HETERORHABDITIS BACTERIOPHORA; HEXAPODA; NEGIBACTERIA; NEMATODA; PHOTORHABDUS; PHOTORHABDUS LUMINESCENS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RNA;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; PHOTORHABDUS; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84936889717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1690-2     Document Type: Article

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