Trypanosoma brucei 29-13 strain is inducible in but not permissive for the tsetse fly vector

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 111-114

  Herder, Stéphane ^a   Votýpka, Jan ^b,c   Jirků, Milan ^c,d   Rádrová, Jana ^b   Janzen, Christian J ^e   Lukeš, Julius ^c,d  

^a Institut de recherche pour le développement   (France)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

GFP; Glossina; Midgut infection; Tetracycline induction; Transmission; Trypanosoma brucei; Tsetse

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GLOSSINA; INFECTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; TSETSE FLY;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI; TSETSE FLIES;

GLOSSINA (GENUS); GLOSSINA MORSITANS MORSITANS; GLOSSINA PALPALIS GAMBIENSIS; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

EID: 34548684391     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.05.011     Document Type: Article

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