Genome and transcriptome of the regeneration-competent flatworm, Macrostomum lignano

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 40, 2015, Pages 12462-12467

  Wasik, Kaja ^a   Gurtowski, James ^a   Zhou, Xin ^a,b   Ramos, Olivia Mendivil ^a   Delás, M Joaquina ^a,c   Battistoni, Giorgia ^a,c   El Demerdash, Osama ^a   Falciatori, Ilaria ^a,c   Vizoso, Dita B ^d   Smith, Andrew D ^e   Ladurner, Peter ^f   Schärer, Lukas ^d   McCombie, W Richard ^a   Hannon, Gregory J ^a,c   Schatz, Michael ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Flatworm; Genome; Macrostomum; Neoblast; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; HELMINTH PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MACROSTOMUM LIGNANO; NONHUMAN; PLATYHELMINTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; SELF CONCEPT; STEM CELL; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOME, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLATYHELMINTHS; REGENERATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84943427290     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1516718112     Document Type: Article

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