Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Dynamic transcriptomes identify biogenic amines and insect-like hormonal regulation for mediating reproduction in Schistosoma japonicum

  • Jipeng Wang,
  • Ying Yu,
  • Haimo Shen,
  • Tao Qing,
  • Yuanting Zheng,
  • Qing Li,
  • Xiaojin Mo,
  • Shuqi Wang,
  • Nana Li,
  • Riyi Chai,
  • Bin Xu,
  • Mu Liu,
  • Paul J Brindley,
  • Donald P McManus,
  • Zheng Feng,
  • Leming Shi,
  • Wei Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14693
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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For reproduction, the human parasiteSchistosoma japonicumrelies on a complex and incompletely understood interplay between female and male schistosomes. Here the authors sequence the transcriptome of female and male schistosomes across eight time points during sexual development.