Dictyocaulus viviparus genome, variome and transcriptome elucidate lungworm biology and support future intervention

Samantha N McNulty; Christina Struebe; Bruce A Rosa; John C Martin; Rahul Tyagi; Young-Jun Choi; Qi Wang; Kymberlie Hallsworth Pepin; Xu Zhang; Philip Ozersky; Richard K Wilson; Paul W Sternberg; Robin B Gasser; Makedonka Mitreva

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Dictyocaulus viviparus genome, variome and transcriptome elucidate lungworm biology and support future intervention

Samantha N McNulty, Christina Struebe, Bruce A Rosa, John C Martin, Rahul Tyagi, Young-Jun Choi, Qi Wang, Kymberlie Hallsworth Pepin, Xu Zhang, Philip Ozersky, Richard K Wilson, Paul W Sternberg, Robin B Gasser, Makedonka Mitreva

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1038/srep20316

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Funding Acknowledgements

This article is dedicated to the memory of Professor Thomas Schnieder. The genome sequencing and annotation work was funded by US National Institutes of Health (NIH)-National Human Genome Research Institute grant U54HG003079 to R.K.W. Comparative genome analysis was funded by NIH/NIAID grant AI081803 to M.M and by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant no. (2013-67015-21230) from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. R.B.G's research was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC), the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) of Australia, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as well as by a Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) grant number VR0007 on its Peak Computing Facility at the University of Melbourne, an initiative of the Victorian Government. We thank the faculty and staff of The McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University who contributed to this study.