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

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

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

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

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

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

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Genomics 2007, 8:311doi: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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Additional file 2:

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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