Differential gene expression in abdomens of the malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles gambiae, after sugar feeding, blood feeding and Plasmodium berghei infection

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Dana, Ali N ^a   Hillenmeyer, Maureen E ^a   Lobo, Neil F ^a   Kern, Marcia K ^a   Romans, Patricia A ^b   Collins, Frank H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONTIG; GENE PRODUCT;

ABDOMEN; AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA LIBRARY; DOWN REGULATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; IMMUNITY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MALARIA; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYST; PARASITE VECTOR; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUGAR INTAKE; UNTRANSLATED REGION; UPREGULATION;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; INSECTA; PLASMODIUM BERGHEI;

EID: 33746093944     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-119     Document Type: Article

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