Differential transcription of two highly divergent gut-expressed Bm86 antigen gene homologues in the tick Rhipicephalus appendiculatus (Acari: Ixodida)

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 105-114

  Kamau, L ^a,b   Skilton, R A ^c   Odongo, D O ^a,d   Mwaura, S ^a   Githaka, N ^a   Kanduma, E ^a,d   Obura, M ^a   Kabiru, E ^b   Orago, A ^b   Musoke, A ^a,e   Bishop, R P ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c International Livestock Research Institute   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^e ARC Onderstepoort   (South Africa)

Author keywords

differential transcription; gut antigen; Ra86; Rhipicephalus appendiculatus; tick; vaccine

Indexed keywords

BM86 PROTEIN, BOOPHILUS; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; VACCINE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VACCINES;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; BOOPHILUS; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS APPENDICULATUS;

EID: 78651321640     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2010.01043.x     Document Type: Article

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