Haemonchus contortus transcriptome

ABSTRACT: Haemonchus contortus is a highly pathogenic parasitic nematode of that can infect a large number of wild and domesticated ruminant species and is the most economically important parasite of sheep and goats worldwide. Although originally a tropical parasite, it has been disseminated around the world by livestock movement and can now be found as far north as the arctic circle. Adult worms are blood feeders that reside in the abomasum (stomach) and are approximately 2cm in length when mature. They are dioecious with single females typically producing several thousand eggs per day which pass out of the host in faeces and develop to infective larvae on the pasture. H. contortus is a member of the superfamily trichostrongyloidea (Strongylida) which contains most of the economically important par

INSTRUMENT(S): Illumina MiSeq

ORGANISM(S): Haemonchus contortus

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PROVIDER: E-ERAD-143 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress