Existence of phenol oxidase in the argasid tick Ornithodoros moubata

Parasitology Research

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 781-784

  Kadota, Kimie ^a   Satoh, Eiki ^a   Ochiai, Masanari ^b   Inoue, Noboru ^a   Tsuji, Naotoshi ^c   Igarashi, Ikuo ^a   Nagasawa, Hideyuki ^a   Mikami, Takeshi ^a   Claveria, Florencia G ^a,d   Fujisaki, Kozo ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHENYLTHIOUREA;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TICK; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE; METABOLISM; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; PERIPLANETA; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT;

ANIMAL; ARGASIDAE; HEMOLYMPH; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NYMPH; ORNITHODOROS; PERIPLANETA; RABBITS; ANIMALS;

ACARI; ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; ORNITHODOROS; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA;

EID: 0036020351     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-002-0664-x     Document Type: Article

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