The Fasciola hepatica genome: Gene duplication and polymorphism reveals adaptation to the host environment and the capacity for rapid evolution

Genome Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Cwiklinski, Krystyna ^a,b   Dalton, John Pius ^b,c   Dufresne, Philippe J ^c,d   La Course, James ^e   Williams, Diana J L ^a   Hodgkinson, Jane ^a   Paterson, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; PROTEINASE; TUBULIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CYP450 GENE; DETOXIFICATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GST GENE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; NEMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SELF FERTILIZATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; VACCINATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; FASCIOLIASIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOME; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY;

FASCIOLA HEPATICA; MAMMALIA;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; FASCIOLA HEPATICA; FASCIOLIASIS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, HELMINTH; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 84937073781     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0632-2     Document Type: Article

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