Simplify, simplify: Lifestyle and compact genome of the body louse provide a unique functional genomics opportunity

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 188-191

  Pittendrigh, Barry R ^a   Berenbaum, May R ^a   Seufferheld, Manfredo J ^a   Margam, Venu M ^b   Strycharz, Joseph P ^c   Yoon, Kyong S ^c   Sun, Weilin ^a   Reenan, Robert ^d   Lee, Si Hyeock ^e   Clark, John M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Disease vector; Functional genomics; Genome size; Insect genomics; RNAi

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; PEDICULUS; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; PHTHIRAPTERA;

EID: 80155171808     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.4.2.14279     Document Type: Article

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