Global comparative analysis of ESTs from the southern cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The southern cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, is an economically important parasite of cattle and can transmit several pathogenic microorganisms to its cattle host during the feeding process. Understanding the biology and genomics of R. microplus is critical to developing novel methods for controlling these ticks.

Results

We present a global comparative genomic analysis of a gene index of R. microplus comprised of 13,643 unique transcripts assembled from 42,512 expressed sequence tags (ESTs), a significant fraction of the complement of R. microplus genes. The source material for these ESTs consisted of polyA RNA from various tissues, lifestages, and strains of R. microplus, including larvae exposed to heat, cold, host odor, and acaricide. Function

SUBMITTER: Wang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2100071 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature