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Host and parasite genomics, an Australasian perspective
Author(s) -
PEACOCK C.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
parasite immunology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.795
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1365-3024
pISSN - 0141-9838
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3024.2010.01226.x
Subject(s) - biology , genomics , immunology , host (biology) , parasite hosting , computational biology , genome , genetics , gene , computer science , world wide web
Summary The last decade has seen rapid advances in the genetic technology that is allowing researchers to examine host–pathogen interactions at a whole organism level. The advent of ‘affordable’ post‐genomic technology has opened up a world of proteomic, transcriptomic and metabolomic methodologies that have been utilized by research groups in the Australasian region to examine the hosts’ response to parasitic infections. Significant contributions have been made to many areas of parasitic infections with particular strengths being in malaria vaccine development, genetic susceptibility to leishmaniasis, genomic and proteomic analysis of schistosomiasis and genetic determination of resistance to helminthes in domestic animals. This review highlights some of these studies that have made significant contributions to our knowledge of the pathogenesis of parasitic diseases with a particular emphasis placed on studies reported in the last couple of years.