Tracking the sources of blood meals of parasitic arthropods using shotgun proteomics and unidentified tandem mass spectral libraries

Nature Protocols

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 842-850

  Önder, Özlem ^a   Shao, Wenguang ^b   Lam, Henry ^b   Brisson, Dustin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME;

ALKYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PARASITE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENE SEQUENCE; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NANOANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEOMICS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; ARTHROPOD; BLOOD MEAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD; FOOD ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEMATOPHAGOUS ARTHROPOD; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MASS SPECTROMETER; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEOME BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; IXODES; PARASITOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BLOOD; IXODES; PROTEOMICS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84897144794     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2014.048     Document Type: Article

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