The Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus Bm86 gene plays a critical role in the fitness of ticks fed on cattle during acute Babesia bovis infection

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Bastos, Reginaldo G ^a   Ueti, Massaro W ^b   Knowles, Donald P ^a,b   Scoles, Glen A ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BM86 GLYCOPROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; GLYCOPROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE BABESIOSIS; ARTICLE; BABESIA BOVIS; BABESIOSIS; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EGG SIZE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; LARVA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PROGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TICK;

BABESIA; BABESIA BOVIS; BOOPHILUS; BOOPHILUS BOVIS; BOS; BOVINAE; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS;

EID: 78349267618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-3-111     Document Type: Article

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