Genome of Rhodnius prolixus, an insect vector of Chagas disease, reveals unique adaptations to hematophagy and parasite infection
ContributorsMesquita, Rafael D; Vionette-Amaral, Raquel J; Lowenberger, Carl; Rivera-Pomar, Rolando; Monteiro, Fernando A; Minx, Patrick; Spieth, John; Carvalho, A Bernardo; Panzera, Francisco; Lawson, Daniel; Torres, André Q; Ribeiro, Jose M C; Sorgine, Marcos H F; Waterhouse, Robert; Montague, Michael J
Published inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 112, no. 48, p. 14936-14941
Publication date2015
Abstract
Keywords
- Adaptation, Physiological/genetics
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Chagas Disease
- Gene Transfer, Horizontal
- Host-Parasite Interactions/genetics
- Humans
- Insect Vectors/genetics/parasitology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Rhodnius/genetics/parasitology
- Trypanosoma cruzi/physiology
- Wolbachia/genetics
Citation (ISO format)
MESQUITA, Rafael D et al. Genome of Rhodnius prolixus, an insect vector of Chagas disease, reveals unique adaptations to hematophagy and parasite infection. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015, vol. 112, n° 48, p. 14936–14941. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1506226112
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Identifiers
- PID : unige:90485
- DOI : 10.1073/pnas.1506226112
- PMID : 26627243
ISSN of the journal0027-8424