Gene-knockdown in the honey bee mite Varroa destructor by a non-invasive approach: Studies on a glutathione S-transferase

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Campbell, Ewan M ^a   Budge, Giles E ^b   Bowman, Alan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE M1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CATALYSIS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SURVIVAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VARROA;

ACARI; APIS MELLIFERA; IXODIDA; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

EID: 77955534241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-73     Document Type: Article

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