Gene expression evidence for off-target effects caused by RNA interference-mediated gene silencing of Ubiquitin-63E in the cattle tick Rhipicephalus microplus

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1001-1014

  Lew Tabor, A E ^a,b,c   Kurscheid, S ^a,c   Barrero, R ^c   Gondro, C ^a,d   Moolhuijzen, P M ^a,c   Rodriguez Valle, M ^a,b   Morgan, J A T ^a,b   Covacin, C ^b   Bellgard, M I ^a,c  

^a CRC for Beef Genetic Technologies ^*  (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gene knockdown; Off target effects; RNA interference; Ticks

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; FATTY ACID; MESSENGER RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; UBIQUITIN;

BIOINFORMATICS; FATTY ACID; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; RNA; TICK;

ARTICLE; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; CATTLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; IMAGO; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; STRESS; UBIQUITIN 63E GENE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; RHIPICEPHALUS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; TICK INFESTATIONS; UBIQUITIN;

ACARI; BOOPHILUS; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; RHIPICEPHALUS;

EID: 79960557151     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: 18790135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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