Aedes aegypti: An emerging model for vector mosquito development

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Clemons, Anthony ^a,b   Haugen, Morgan ^a   Flannery, Ellen ^b   Tomchaney, Michael ^a,b   Kast, Kristopher ^b   Jacowski, Caitlin ^a,b   Le, Christy ^b   Mori, Akio ^b   Holland, Wendy Simanton ^a   Sarro, Joseph ^b   Severson, David W ^b   Duman Scheel, Molly ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DISEASE CARRIER; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENE FUNCTION; GENOMICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSGENICS; VECTOR CONTROL;

AEDES AEGYPTI;

EID: 77958085396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15596095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/pdb.emo141     Document Type: Article

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