Tissue-specific transcriptomics and proteomics of a filarial nematode and its Wolbachia endosymbiont

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Luck, Ashley N ^a   Anderson, Kathryn G ^b   McClung, Colleen M ^a   VerBerkmoes, Nathan C ^a   Foster, Jeremy M ^a   Michalski, Michelle L ^b   Slatko, Barton E ^a  

^a NEW ENGLAND BIOLABS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Endosymbiosis; Filaria; Nematode; Proteomics; Transcriptomics; Wolbachia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAD; INTESTINE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEOMICS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UTERUS; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DIROFILARIA IMMITIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84947867268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-2083-2     Document Type: Article

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