An insight into the sialome of Simulium guianense (DIPTERA: SIMulIIDAE), the main vector of River Blindness Disease in Brazil

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Chagas, Andrezza C ^a,b   Calvo, Eric ^a   Pimenta, Paulo F P ^b   Ribeiro, José M C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; AEGYTIN; ANTIGEN 5; APROTININ; GLYCOSIDASE; HYALURONIDASE; INSECT PROTEIN; KUNITOXIN; LAMININ; LIPOCALIN; MUCIN; RIBOSOME RNA; SALIVA PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTIG MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; H GENE; INSECT GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEOMICS; RNA SEQUENCE; S GENE; SALIVARY GLAND; SIMULIUM; SIMULIUM GUIANENSE; SIMULIUM NIGRIMANUM; SIMULIUM VITTATUM; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; HUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SIMULIIDAE;

ARTHROPODA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM GUIANENSE; SIMULIUM VITTATUM;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; ONCHOCERCIASIS, OCULAR; PHYLOGENY; SIMULIIDAE;

EID: 83655182595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-612     Document Type: Article

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