Comparative Life Cycle Transcriptomics Revises Leishmania mexicana Genome Annotation and Links a Chromosome Duplication with Parasitism of Vertebrates

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Fiebig, Michael ^a   Kelly, Steven ^b   Gluenz, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INFLAMMATION; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PATHOGENESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WESTERN BLOTTING; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOME; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LEISHMANIASIS; PARASITOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LEISHMANIA MEXICANA; LEISHMANIASIS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTOME; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84946043045     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1005186     Document Type: Article

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