The genome of Onchocerca volvulus, agent of river blindness

Nature Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Cotton, James A ^a   Bennuru, Sasisekhar ^b   Grote, Alexandra ^c   Harsha, Bhavana ^a   Tracey, Alan ^a   Beech, Robin ^d   Doyle, Stephen R ^a   Dunn, Matthew ^a   Hotopp, Julie C Dunning ^e   Holroyd, Nancy ^a   Kikuchi, Taisei ^a,l   Lambert, Olivia ^a   Mhashilkar, Amruta ^f   Mutowo, Prudence ^g   Nursimulu, Nirvana ^h,i   Ribeiro, Jose M C ^b   Rogers, Matthew B ^j   Stanley, Eleanor ^a,m   Swapna, Lakshmipuram S ⁱ   Tsai, Isheng J ^a,n   Unnasch, Thomas R ^f   Voronin, Denis ^k   Parkinson, John ^h,i   Nutman, Thomas B ^b   Ghedin, Elodie ^c   Berriman, Matthew ^a   Lustigman, Sara ^k   more..

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^g EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁱ HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^j CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^k NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^m Eagle Genomics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH CENTER   (Taiwan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENETICS; GENOME; OCULAR ONCHOCERCIASIS; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; PARASITOLOGY; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, HELMINTH; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 84996538227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.216     Document Type: Article

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