The sialotranscriptome of the blood-sucking bug Triatoma brasiliensis (Hemiptera, Triatominae)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 702-712

  Santos, Adriana ^a   Ribeiro, José Marcos C ^b   Lehane, Michael J ^c   Gontijo, Nelder Figueiredo ^a   Veloso, Artur Botelho ^a   Sant'Anna, Mauricio R V ^c   Nascimento Araujo, Ricardo ^a   Grisard, Edmundo C ^d   Pereira, Marcos Horácio ^a  

^a ICB   (Brazil)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d CCB   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Hematophagy; Saliva; Salivary proteins; Transcriptome; Triatoma brasiliensis

Indexed keywords

APYRASE; HEMOPROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; NITROPHORIN; SALIVA PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRIABIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BLOOD; BRAZIL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; DNA SEQUENCE; EATING; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLAND; SECRETION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APYRASE; BLOOD; BRAZIL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EATING; GENE LIBRARY; HEMEPROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECT VECTORS; PHYLOGENY; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLANDS; SALIVARY PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

HEMIPTERA; TABANIDAE; TRIATOMA; TRIATOMA BRASILIENSIS; TRIATOMINAE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 34249716300     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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