Mosquito genomics: Progress and challenges

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2012, Pages 143-166

  Severson, David W ^a   Behura, Susanta K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Culicidae; Population biology; Proteome; Transcriptome; Vector biology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; MOSQUITO; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; GENOME, INSECT; GENOMICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 83455205862     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120710-100651     Document Type: Article

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