Lessons from the genomes and transcriptomes of filarial nematodes

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 215, Issue , 2017, Pages 23-29

  Grote, Alexandra ^a   Lustigman, Sara ^b   Ghedin, Elodie ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Filaria; Genomics; Parasitic nematodes; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE; VACCINE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; DRUG TARGETING; ENDOSYMBIONT; FILARIA; FILARIASIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLTING; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PARASITE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SYNTENY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WOLBACHIA; ANIMAL; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; FILARIOIDEA; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; DRUG DISCOVERY; FILARIOIDEA; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOME, HELMINTH; HUMANS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85010952890     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: 18729428     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2017.01.004     Document Type: Article

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