CattleTickBase: An integrated Internet-based bioinformatics resource for Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 161-169

  Bellgard, Matthew I ^a,b   Moolhuijzen, Paula M ^a,b   Guerrero, Felix D ^c   Schibeci, David ^a   Rodriguez Valle, Manuel ^b,d   Peterson, Daniel G ^e   Dowd, Scot E ^f   Barrero, Roberto ^a   Hunter, Adam ^a   Miller, Robert J ^g   Lew Tabor, Ala E ^a,b,d  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Beef Genetic Technologies ^*  (Australia)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^e MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Molecular Research   (United States)

^g USDA ARS Cattle Fever Tick Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Cattle tick; Genome project; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

BIOINFORMATICS; CATTLE; DATA SET; DNA; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; TICK;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITE GENOME; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS MICROPLUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WEB BROWSER;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; INTERNET; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHIPICEPHALUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BOOPHILUS; BOOPHILUS MICROPLUS; RHIPICEPHALUS;

EID: 84856490819     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: 18790135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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