Transovarial silencing of the subolesin gene in three-host ixodid tick species after injection of replete females with subolesin dsRNA

Parasitology Research

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1411-1415

  Kocan, Katherine M ^a   Manzano Roman, Raúl ^a   De La Fuente, José ^a,b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN; SUBOLESIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMBLYOMMA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMACENTOR; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEEDING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LARVA; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OVARY FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TICK;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IXODIDAE; OVARY; OVUM; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED;

AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; BOOPHILUS; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS;

EID: 33947359934     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0483-1     Document Type: Article

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