Ixodes scapularis tick serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin) gene family; annotation and transcriptional analysis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mulenga, Albert ^a   Khumthong, Rabuesak ^a   Chalaire, Katelyn C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRON; IXODES SCAPULARIS; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SALIVARY GLAND; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IXODES; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; SERPINS;

EID: 66749177735     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-217     Document Type: Article

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