An improved and secreted luciferase reporter for schistosomes
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An improved and secreted luciferase reporter for schistosomes.
Schistosomes are multicellular parasites of humans exhibiting interesting biological adaptations to their parasitic lifestyle. Concerted and in depth analyses of these adaptations and their cell and molecular biology requires further development of molecular genetic tools in schistosomes. In the current study, we demonstrate that a Gaussia luciferase reporter leads to significantly higher level...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0166-6851
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.06.013