Elucidating a key developmental switch in Haemonchus contortus using a massively parallel picolitre reactor sequencing-coupled genomic and bioinformatic platform

该项目的国家/社区效益包括：通过开发安全的抗寄生虫化合物/疫苗，加强对动物和人类健康生物技术的重视；改善对关键寄生虫的可持续控制，降低产生抗药性的风险；增加农业动物生产的盈利能力；巩固一个技术平台，以进一步应用于具有全球意义的病原体的基因组学和后基因组学，并建设一条确认药物靶点的管道；获取基础研究的惠益，加强基础研究和应用研究之间的联系；并提高生物技术领域熟练科学人员的质量和数量。

The national/community benefits of this project include enhanced focus on animal and human health biotechnology through the development of safe anti-parasite compounds/vaccines; improved and sustainable control of key parasites with decreased risk of induction of drug resistance; increased profitability of agricultural animal production; consolidation of a technology platform for further applications in genomics and post-genomics of pathogens of global significance and construction of a pipeline for the validation of drug targets; capturing the benefits from fundamental research and strengthening links between fundamental and applied research; and increasing the quality and quantity of scientifically skilled people in biotechnology.