Abstract
Schistosoma mansoni, a trematode parasite, is the major causative agent of Schistomiasis, a public health problem in South America and Africa. Recently, as a result of two separate efforts, the transcriptome of Schistosoma mansoni [1] and S. japonicum [2] were published. Schistosomes possess distinct and differentiated organs and have evolved to adapt to parasitism. Availability of transcriptome data has raised a number of issues regarding the parasite’s cell biology and signaling pathways, as recently discussed in a review [3].
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Thiago.M., V., Ricardo, D., Katia C.P., O., Ana Carolina Quirino, S., Aline Maria, d.S., Sergio, VA. (2005). Genomics and Gene Expression Management Tools for the Schistosoma Mansoni cDNA Microarray Project. In: Setubal, J.C., Verjovski-Almeida, S. (eds) Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. BSB 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3594. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11532323_22
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