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

• Egile Nagusiak: Pengfei Cai (Egilea), Shuai Liu (Egilea), Xianyu Piao (Egilea), Nan Hou (Egilea), Geoffrey N Gobert (Egilea), Donald P McManus (Egilea), Qijun Chen (Egilea)
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• Argitaratua: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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Schistosomiasis is a chronic and debilitating disease caused by blood flukes (digenetic trematodes) of the genus Schistosoma. Schistosomes are sexually dimorphic and exhibit dramatic morphological changes during a complex lifecycle which requires subtle gene regulatory mechanisms to fulfil these com...