Schistosoma mansoni Egg, Adult Male and Female Comparative Gene Expression Analysis and Identification of Novel Genes by RNA-Seq

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Anderson, Letícia ^a   Amaral, Murilo S ^a,b   Beckedorff, Felipe ^a   Silva, Lucas F ^a   Dazzani, Bianca ^a   Oliveira, Katia C ^c,e   Almeida, Giulliana T ^a   Gomes, Monete R ^a   Pires, David S ^a,b   Setubal, João C ^a,d   DeMarco, Ricardo ^a   Verjovski Almeida, Sergio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO ADOLFO LUTZ   (Brazil)

^d VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONTIG; RIBONUCLEOSIDE; TRANSCRIPTOME; HELMINTH RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; EGG; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PYROSEQUENCING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; AFRICA; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, HELMINTH; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84953309017     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004334     Document Type: Article

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