Nematodes transcription

Bird, D.M. and Wilson, M.A. (1994) DNA sequence and expression analysis of root-knot nematode elicited giant cell transcripts. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 7, 419-424. 

The parasitic nematode, Ascaris suum, undergoes a number of well-characterized metabolic transitions during its development (Table 14.1), but little is known about the regulation of these events (Barrett, 1976 Komuniecki and Komuniecki, 1995). Adults reside in the porcine small intestine and fertilization takes place under low oxygen tensions. The unembryonated egg that leaves the host is metabolically quiescent, has no detectable cytochrome oxidase activity or ubiquinone and appears to be transcriptionally inactive (Cleavinger et al., 1989 Takamiya et al., 1993). Embryonation requires oxygen and after about 48-72 h is accompanied by... 

Cleavinger, P.J., McDowell, J.W. and Bennett, K.L. (1989) Transcription in nematodes early Ascaris embryos are transcriptionally active. Developmental Biology 133, 600-604. 

Edison, A.S., Messinger, L.A. and Stretton, AO.W. (1997) A gene encoding multiple transcripts of a new class of FMRFamide-like neuropeptides in the nematode, Ascaris suum. Peptides 18, 929-935. 

The developmental time course of gene transcription has been assessed with DNA microarrays for the nematode... 

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