Genomic survey of the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor, a major pest of the honey bee Apis mellifera

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Cornman, Scott R ^a   Schatz, Michael C ^b   Johnston, Spencer J ^c   Chen, Yan Ping ^a   Pettis, Jeff ^a   Hunt, Greg ^a   Bourgeois, Lanie ^a   Elsik, Chris ^e   Anderson, Denis ^f   Grozinger, Christina M ^g   Evans, Jay D ^a,d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CSIRO   (Australia)

^g PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ACTINOMYCETALES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; EUKARYOTE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME SIZE; HONEYBEE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IXODES SCAPULARIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VARROA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMAL; BEE; CODON; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; VARROIDAE;

ACARI; ACTINOMYCETALES; APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACULOVIRIDAE; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; IXODES SCAPULARIS; IXODIDA; VARROA; VARROA DESTRUCTOR;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; BACULOVIRIDAE; BASE COMPOSITION; BEES; CODON; CONTIG MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PARASITES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VARROIDAE;

EID: 77958129830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-602     Document Type: Article

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