Functional Genomics Tools for Haemonchus contortus and Lessons From Other Helminths

Advances in Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue , 2016, Pages 599-623

  Britton, C ^a   Roberts, B ^a   Marks, N D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caenorhabditis elegans; CRISPR Cas; Functional genomics; Genome editing; Haemonchus; Parasitic nematode; RNA delivery; RNA interference; Transfection; Transgenesis

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; CULTURE MEDIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ESSENTIAL GENE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; HELMINTH; INTESTINE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCHISTOSOMA; TREMATODE; TURBELLARIA; ANIMAL; GENE EDITING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HAEMONCHOSIS; HAEMONCHUS; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENE EDITING; GENOMICS; HAEMONCHIASIS; HAEMONCHUS; NEMATODA; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84962027484     PISSN: 0065308X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.apar.2016.02.017     Document Type: Article

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