Sex-Biased Transcriptome of Schistosoma mansoni: Host-Parasite Interaction, Genetic Determinants and Epigenetic Regulators Are Associated with Sexual Differentiation.

• Main Authors: Marion A L Picard (Author), Jérôme Boissier (Author), David Roquis (Author), Christoph Grunau (Author), Jean-François Allienne (Author), David Duval (Author), Eve Toulza (Author), Nathalie Arancibia (Author), Conor R Caffrey (Author), Thavy Long (Author), Sabine Nidelet (Author), Marine Rohmer (Author), Céline Cosseau (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:Among more than 20,000 species of hermaphroditic trematodes, Schistosomatidae are unusual since they have evolved gonochorism. In schistosomes, sex is determined by a female heterogametic system, but phenotypic sexual dimorphism appears only after infection of the vertebrate definitive ho...