Tick saliva: From pharmacology and biochemistry to transcriptome analysis and functional genomics

Ticks: Biology, Disease and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 92-107

  Anderson, J M ^a   Valenzuela, J G ^a  

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

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511551802.005     Document Type: Chapter

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