Tick vitellogenin receptor reveals critical role in oocyte development and transovarial transmission of Babesia parasite

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 331-344

  Boldbaatar, Damdinsuren ^a   Battsetseg, Badgar ^b   Matsuo, Tomohide ^c   Hatta, Takeshi ^b   Umemiya Shirafuji, Rika ^a   Xuan, Xuenan ^b   Fujisaki, Kozo ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Double stranded RNA; Haemaphysalis longicornis tick; Transovarial transmission; Vitellogenin; Vitellogenin receptor

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; AMINATION; AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; CELL MEMBRANES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); NUCLEIC ACIDS;

AMINO-ACID SEQUENCES; CDNA ENCODING; CLASS A; DOUBLE-STRANDED RNA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY ANALYSIS; EXPRESSION PROFILING; EXTERNAL-; FIRST DOMAIN; FULL-LENGTH CDNA; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS TICK; IMMUNO BLOT ANALYSIS; LIGAND-BINDING DOMAINS; NEUMANN; OVARIAN DEVELOPMENT; PLASMA MEMBRANE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL LEVELS; TRANSOVARIAL TRANSMISSION; VITELLOGENIN; VITELLOGENIN RECEPTOR;

ORGANIC ACIDS;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ECDYSTERONE; RECEPTOR; VITELLOGENIN; VITELLOGENIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BABESIA; BABESIA GIBSONI; DNA LIBRARY; GENE SILENCING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BABESIOSIS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; EGG PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; IXODIDAE; OOCYTES; OVARY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER;

BABESIA; BABESIA GIBSONI; CANIS FAMILIARIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; HEXAPODA; IXODIDA;

EID: 49249117858     PISSN: 08298211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/O08-071     Document Type: Article

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