The sialotranscriptome of Amblyomma triste, Amblyomma parvum and Amblyomma cajennense ticks, uncovered by 454-based RNA-seq

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Garcia, Gustavo Rocha ^a   Gardinassi, Luiz Gustavo ^a   Ribeiro, José Marcos ^b   Anatriello, Elen ^a   Ferreira, Beatriz Rossetti ^a   Moreira, Higo Nasser Santanna ^c   Mafra, Cláudio ^c   Martins, Maria Marlene ^d   Szabó, Matias Pablo Juan ^d   De Miranda Santos, Isabel Kinney Ferreira ^a   Maruyama, Sandra Regina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amblyomma cajennense; Amblyomma parvum; Amblyomma triste; RNA seq; Saliva; Salivary gland; Ticks; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CONTIG; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; RNA; SIALOPROTEIN; SIALOTRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ARTHROPOD PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; AMBLYOMMA PARVUM; AMBLYOMMA TRISTE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BLOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; DRUG DETERMINATION; FEEDING; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HOST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RABBIT; RNA SEQUENCE; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLAND; TICK; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; IXODIDAE; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMBLYOMMA CAJENNENSE; AMBLYOMMA PARVUM; AMBLYOMMA TRISTE; IXODIDA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD PROTEINS; FEMALE; IXODIDAE; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; RNA; SALIVA; SALIVARY GLANDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84907441092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-430     Document Type: Article

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