Functional genomics of the horn fly, Haematobia irritans (Linnaeus, 1758)

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Torres, Lorena ^a   Almazán, Consuelo ^a   Ayllón, Nieves ^b   Galindo, Ruth C ^b   Rosario Cruz, Rodrigo ^c   Quiroz Romero, Héctor ^d   De La Fuente, José ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE TAMAULIPAS   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^c Centro Nacional de Investigación Disciplinaria en Parasitología Veterinaria CENID PAVET Carretera Federal Cuernavaca Cuautla   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; FERRITIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EGG LAYING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; FLY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; HAEMATOBIA IRRITANS; INSECT GENETICS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA INTERFERENCE; UBIQUITINATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; MUSCIDAE;

BOS; DIPTERA; HAEMATOBIA IRRITANS; MUSCIDAE;

ANIMALS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME, INSECT; GENOMICS; MUSCIDAE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79751538449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-105     Document Type: Article

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