RNAi in arthropods: Insight into the machinery and applications for understanding the pathogen-vector interface

Genes

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 702-741

  Barnard, Annette Christi ^a   Nijhof, Ard M ^b   Fick, Wilma ^a   Stutzer, Christian ^a   Maritz Olivier, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body louse; Disease; Drug target; Ixodid ticks; Kissing bug; Mosquito; RNA interference; Transgenesis; Tsetse fly; Vaccine; Vector

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE SILENCING; GLOSSINIDAE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IXODIDAE; LOUSE; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSGENICS; TRIATOMINAE;

ARTHROPODA; GLOSSINA (GENUS); IXODIDA; PEDICULUS HUMANUS; TRIATOMINAE;

EID: 84871538087     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes3040702     Document Type: Review

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