The salivary gland transcriptome of the neotropical malaria vector Anopheles darlingi reveals accelerated evolution of genes relevant to hematophagy

BACKGROUND: Mosquito saliva, consisting of a mixture of dozens of proteins affecting vertebrate hemostasis and having sugar digestive and antimicrobial properties, helps both blood and sugar meal feeding. Culicine and anopheline mosquitoes diverged ~150 MYA, and within the anophelines, the New World...

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Autores principales: Calvo, Eric, Pham, Van M, Marinotti, Osvaldo, Andersen, John F, Ribeiro, José MC
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2644710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-10-57

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2644710/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19178717
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-10-57

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