Comprehensive Transcriptome Analysis of Sex-Biased Expressed Genes Reveals Discrete Biological and Physiological Features of Male and Female Schistosoma japonicum

Pengfei Cai; Shuai Liu; Xianyu Piao; Nan Hou; Geoffrey N. Gobert; Donald P. McManus; Qijun Chen

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004684

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Comprehensive Transcriptome Analysis of Sex-Biased Expressed Genes Reveals Discrete Biological and Physiological Features of Male and Female Schistosoma japonicum

Pengfei Cai ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Pengfei Cai, Shuai Liu

* E-mail: Pengfei.Cai@qimrberghofer.edu.au (PC); Don.McManus@qimrberghofer.edu.au (DPM); qijun.chen@ipbcams.ac.cn (QC)

Affiliations MOH Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, P.R. China, Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Queensland, Australia
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Shuai Liu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Pengfei Cai, Shuai Liu

Affiliation MOH Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, P.R. China
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Xianyu Piao,

Affiliation MOH Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, P.R. China
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Nan Hou,

Affiliation MOH Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, P.R. China
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Geoffrey N. Gobert,

Current address: School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Queensland, Australia
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Donald P. McManus ,

* E-mail: Pengfei.Cai@qimrberghofer.edu.au (PC); Don.McManus@qimrberghofer.edu.au (DPM); qijun.chen@ipbcams.ac.cn (QC)

Affiliation Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Queensland, Australia
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Qijun Chen

* E-mail: Pengfei.Cai@qimrberghofer.edu.au (PC); Don.McManus@qimrberghofer.edu.au (DPM); qijun.chen@ipbcams.ac.cn (QC)

Affiliations MOH Key Laboratory of Systems Biology of Pathogens, Institute of Pathogen Biology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, P.R. China, Key Laboratory of Zoonosis, Shenyang Agriculture University, Shenyang, P.R. China
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Comprehensive Transcriptome Analysis of Sex-Biased Expressed Genes Reveals Discrete Biological and Physiological Features of Male and Female Schistosoma japonicum

Pengfei Cai,
Shuai Liu,
Xianyu Piao,
Nan Hou,
Geoffrey N. Gobert,
Donald P. McManus,
Qijun Chen

Published: April 29, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004684

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