BMC Genomics

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A transcriptomic analysis of the adult stage of the bovine lungworm, Dictyocaulus viviparus

Shoba Ranganathan1,2*, Shivashankar H Nagaraj1, Min Hu3, Christina Strube4, Thomas Schnieder4 and Robin B Gasser3*

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia

2 Biotechnology Research Institute, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia

3 Department of Veterinary Science, The University of Melbourne, 250 Princes Highway, Werribee, Victoria 3030, Australia

4 Institute for Parasitology, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Buenteweg 17, D-30559 Hannover, Germany

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BMC Genomics 2007, 8:311 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-311

Published: 5 September 2007

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Additional file 1:

Comparison of 2258 rESTs from Dictyocaulus viviparus with Caenorhabditis elegans data (Wormpep v 167). The table also provides corresponding RNAi phenotypes in C. elegans and information on homologues in parasitic nematodes.

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Secreted proteins predicted from rESTs from Dictyocaulus viviparus.

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Dictyocaulus viviparus homologues in nematodes in clade V, including Ancylostoma caninum, Ancylostoma ceylanicum, Necator americanus, Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, Haemonchus contortus, Ostertagia ostertagi, Teladorsagia circumcincta and Pristionchus pacificus.

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Mapped metabolic pathways in adult Dictyocaulus viviparus based on Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG). The pathway mapping was carried out using the program KOBAS.

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Gene Ontology mappings (using GO slim terms) for Dictyocaulus viviparus clusters generated using BLAST2GO program. Note that individual GO categories can have multiple mappings.

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