Identification and expression analysis of an actin gene from the soft tick, Ornithodoros moubata (Acari: Argasidae)

Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 186-199

  Horigane, Mari ^a   Ogihara, Kazumasa ^a   Nakajima, Yoshiro ^b   Honda, Hiroshi ^a   Taylor, DeMar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arthropod; Cytoskeletal actin; Gene expression; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TICK;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARGASIDAE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOSKELETON; DNA PRIMERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; ARGASIDAE; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; IXODIDA; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA;

EID: 34247104031     PISSN: 07394462     EISSN: 15206327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arch.20170     Document Type: Article

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