Tick genomics - Coming of age

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2666-2673

  Nene, Vishvanath ^a  

^a Immunology University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod; EST; Genome; Review; Sequence; Tick

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA;

ANIMAL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; MALE; REVIEW; TICK;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENOMICS; MALE; TICKS;

EID: 63849154229     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3404     Document Type: Article

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