Comparative microarray analysis of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus expression profiles of larvae pre-attachment and feeding adult female stages on Bos indicus and Bos taurus cattle

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Rodriguez Valle, Manuel ^a,b   Lew Tabor, Ala ^a,b,c   Gondro, Cedric ^a,e   Moolhuijzen, Paula ^a,c   Vance, Megan ^a,b   Guerrero, Felix D ^d   Bellgard, Matthew ^c   Jorgensen, Wayne ^a,b  

^a Cooperative Research Centre for Beef Genetic Technologies ^*  (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS; BREED DIFFERENCE; CATTLE; CELL WALL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; LARVAL STAGE; METABOLIC STRESS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PARASITE VIABILITY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; INNATE IMMUNITY; LARVA; MALE; METABOLISM;

BOOPHILUS; BOS; BOS INDICUS; BOS TAURUS; FRIESIA; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; CATTLE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LARVA; MALE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS;

EID: 77954677564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-437     Document Type: Article

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