Akt is an essential player in regulating cell/organ growth at the adult stage in the hard tick Haemaphysalis longicornis

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 164-173

  Umemiya Shirafuji, Rika ^a   Tanaka, Toru ^a   Boldbaatar, Damdinsuren ^a   Tanaka, Tetsuya ^a   Fujisaki, Kozo ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Akt; Blood feeding; Development; Growth; Haemaphysalis longicornis; Tick

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE B;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITE VECTOR; RABBIT; RNA INTERFERENCE; TICK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IXODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RABBITS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CHELICERATA; EUKARYOTA; HAEMAPHYSALIS LONGICORNIS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE;

EID: 84856228772     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2011.12.001     Document Type: Article

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