Sialome diversity of ticks revealed by RNAseq of single tick salivary glands.

• Main Authors: Jan Perner (Author), Sára Kropáčková (Author), Petr Kopáček (Author), José M C Ribeiro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Ticks salivate while feeding on their hosts. Saliva helps blood feeding through host anti-hemostatic and immunomodulatory components. Previous transcriptomic and proteomic studies revealed the complexity of tick saliva, comprising hundreds of polypeptides grouped in several multi-genic families such...