Transcriptomic changes associated with pregnancy in a marsupial, the gray short-tailed opossum Monodelphis domestica

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Hansen, Victoria Leigh ^a   Schilkey, Faye Dorothy ^b   Miller, Robert David ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GENOME RESOURCES   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; ECTODERM DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; ION TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA; MORPHOLOGY; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRANSCRIPT ABUNDANCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; UTERUS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIVIPARITY; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; OPOSSUM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; OPOSSUMS; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UTERUS;

EID: 84991829753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161608     Document Type: Article

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