Tissue- and time-dependent transcription in Ixodes ricinus salivary glands and midguts when blood feeding on the vertebrate host

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kotsyfakis, Michalis ^a   Schwarz, Alexandra ^a   Erhart, Jan ^a   Ribeiro, José M C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; INTESTINE; IXODES; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SALIVARY GLAND; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INTESTINES; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SALIVARY GLANDS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84924787556     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep09103     Document Type: Article

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