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

• Principais autores: Marion A L Picard (Autor), Jérôme Boissier (Autor), David Roquis (Autor), Christoph Grunau (Autor), Jean-François Allienne (Autor), David Duval (Autor), Eve Toulza (Autor), Nathalie Arancibia (Autor), Conor R Caffrey (Autor), Thavy Long (Autor), Sabine Nidelet (Autor), Marine Rohmer (Autor), Céline Cosseau (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: 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...