Ribeiro_2014_Insect.Biochem.Mol.Biol_44_23

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Title : An insight into the sialome of the frog biting fly, Corethrella appendiculata - Ribeiro_2014_Insect.Biochem.Mol.Biol_44_23
Author(s) : Ribeiro JM , Chagas AC , Pham VM , Lounibos LP , Calvo E
Ref : Insect Biochemistry & Molecular Biology , 44 :23 , 2014
Abstract :

The Nematocera infraorder Culicomorpha is believed to have descended from bloodfeeding ancestors over 200 million years ago, generating bloodfeeding and non-bloodfeeding flies in two superfamilies, the Culicoidea-containing the mosquitoes, the frog-feeding midges, the Chaoboridae, and the Dixidae-and the Chironomoidea-containing the black flies, the ceratopogonids, the Chironomidae, and the Thaumaleidae. Blood feeding requires many adaptations, including development of a sophisticated salivary potion that disarms host hemostasis, the physiologic mechanism comprising platelet aggregation, vasoconstriction, and blood clotting. The composition of the sialome (from the Greek sialo = saliva) from bloodfeeding animals can be inferred from analysis of their salivary gland transcriptome. While members of the mosquitoes, black flies, and biting midges have provided sialotranscriptome descriptions, no species of the frog-biting midges has been thus analyzed. We describe in this work the sialotranscriptome of Corethrella appendiculata, revealing a complex potion of enzymes, classical nematoceran protein families involved in blood feeding, and novel protein families unique to this species of frog-feeding fly. Bacterial (Wolbachia) and novel viral sequences were also discovered.

PubMedSearch : Ribeiro_2014_Insect.Biochem.Mol.Biol_44_23
PubMedID: 24514880
Gene_locus related to this paper: 9dipt-u5esu7 , 9dipt-u5exg0 , 9dipt-u5ey55 , 9dipt-u5el72 , 9dipt-u5eqd3 , 9dipt-u5exe1 , 9dipt-u5ei13 , 9dipt-u5euz8 , 9dipt-u5ew54 , 9dipt-u5evs7 , 9dipt-u5exi6 , 9dipt-u5eqx1 , 9dipt-u5es04 , 9dipt-u5etp8 , 9dipt-u5etf1 , 9dipt-u5esl1

Related information

Gene_locus 9dipt-u5esu7    9dipt-u5exg0    9dipt-u5ey55    9dipt-u5el72    9dipt-u5eqd3    9dipt-u5exe1    9dipt-u5ei13    9dipt-u5euz8    9dipt-u5ew54    9dipt-u5evs7    9dipt-u5exi6    9dipt-u5eqx1    9dipt-u5es04    9dipt-u5etp8    9dipt-u5etf1    9dipt-u5esl1
Gene_locus_frgt 9dipt-u5eru6

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Ribeiro JM, Chagas AC, Pham VM, Lounibos LP, Calvo E (2014)
An insight into the sialome of the frog biting fly, Corethrella appendiculata
Insect Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 44 :23

Ribeiro JM, Chagas AC, Pham VM, Lounibos LP, Calvo E (2014)
Insect Biochemistry & Molecular Biology 44 :23