Tissue and life-stage distribution of a defensin gene in the Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 141-147

  Todd, S M ^a   Sonenshine, D E ^a   Hynes, W L ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyomma; Defensin; Innate immunity

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEFENSIN; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LARVA; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN; TICK;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TICK;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEFENSINS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IXODIDAE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; AMBLYOMMA HEBRAEUM; BORRELIA; DERMACENTOR; DERMACENTOR VARIABILIS; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 34249905629     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2007.00682.x     Document Type: Article

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