Cloning and sequencing of putative calreticulin complementary DNAs from four hard tick species

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 73-78

  Xu, Guang ^a   Fang, Quentin Q ^a   Keirans, James E ^a   Durden, Lance A ^a  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALRETICULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE; RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

PARASITOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; TICK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALRETICULIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; DERMACENTOR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IXODES; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACARI; ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA; ARACHNIDA; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; EUKARYOTA; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; HEXAPODA; IXODES; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 1442348374     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-157R     Document Type: Article

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