De novo assembly and annotation of the salivary gland transcriptome of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus male and female ticks during blood feeding

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 536-548

  de Castro, Minique H ^a,b,c   de Klerk, Daniel ^a   Pienaar, Ronel ^a   Latif, Abdalla A ^a,d   Rees, D Jasper G ^b,c   Mans, Ben J ^a,c,e  

^a ONDERSTEPOORT VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

De novo transcriptome assembly; Next generation sequencing; Rhipicephalus appendiculatus; Salivary glands; Secretory proteins; Sialotranscriptomics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BLOOD; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; RHIPICEPHALUS; SALIVARY GLAND; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BLOOD; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; RHIPICEPHALUS; SALIVARY GLANDS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84977485785     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2016.01.014     Document Type: Article

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