Sialotranscriptomics of Rhipicephalus zambeziensis reveals intricate expression profiles of secretory proteins and suggests tight temporal transcriptional regulation during blood-feeding

An insight into the sialome of Hyalomma excavatum

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Anaplasma phagocytophilumincreases the levels of histone modifying enzymes to inhibit cell apoptosis and facilitate pathogen infection in the tick vectorIxodes scapularis

(2016) Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz et al.   Epigenetics

TransRate: reference-free quality assessment of de novo transcriptome assemblies

(2016) Richard Smith-Unna et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Long non-coding RNAs: spatial amplifiers that control nuclear structure and gene expression

(2016) Jesse M. Engreitz et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Strategies for new and improved vaccines against ticks and tick-borne diseases

(2016) J. de la Fuente et al.   PARASITE IMMUNOLOGY

Temporal Gene Expression Analysis and RNA Silencing of Single and Multiple Members of Gene Family in the Lone Star Tick Amblyomma americanum

(2016) Rebekah L. Bullard et al.   PLoS One

All For One and One For All on the Tick–Host Battlefield

(2016) Jindřich Chmelař et al.   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Long non-coding RNAs in innate and adaptive immunity

(2016) Thomas M. Aune et al.   VIRUS RESEARCH

De novo assembly and annotation of the salivary gland transcriptome of Rhipicephalus appendiculatus male and female ticks during blood feeding

(2016) Minique H. de Castro et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

A review of reverse vaccinology approaches for the development of vaccines against ticks and tick borne diseases

(2016) A.E. Lew-Tabor et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Ancestral reconstruction of tick lineages

(2016) Ben J. Mans et al.   Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases

Genomic insights into the Ixodes scapularis tick vector of Lyme disease

(2016) Monika Gulia-Nuss et al.   Nature Communications

Identification of Aedes aegypti Long Intergenic Non-coding RNAs and Their Association with Wolbachia and Dengue Virus Infection

(2016) Kayvan Etebari et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Ixodes scapularis Tick Saliva Proteins Sequentially Secreted Every 24 h during Blood Feeding

(2016) Tae Kwon Kim et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs

(2015) Felipe A. Simão et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Long noncoding RNAs in innate immunity

(2015) Yuan Zhang et al.   Cellular & Molecular Immunology

De novo sequencing, assembly and analysis of salivary gland transcriptome of Haemaphysalis flava and identification of sialoprotein genes

(2015) Xing-Li Xu et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Sexual differences in the sialomes of the zebra tick, Rhipicephalus pulchellus

(2015) Angelina W.L. Tan et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Modulation of host immunity by tick saliva

(2015) Jan Kotál et al.   Journal of Proteomics

The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future

(2015) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Differential sialotranscriptomes of unfed and fed Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides, with particular regard to differentially expressed genes of cysteine proteases

(2015) Xinmao Yu et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Tissue- and time-dependent transcription in Ixodes ricinus salivary glands and midguts when blood feeding on the vertebrate host

(2015) Michalis Kotsyfakis et al.   Scientific Reports

Systems Biology of Tissue-Specific Response to Anaplasma phagocytophilum Reveals Differentiated Apoptosis in the Tick Vector Ixodes scapularis

(2015) Nieves Ayllón et al.   PLoS Genetics

PacBio Sequencing and Its Applications

(2015) Anthony Rhoads et al.   GENOMICS PROTEOMICS & BIOINFORMATICS

Climate change, biodiversity, ticks and tick-borne diseases: The butterfly effect

(2015) Filipe Dantas-Torres   International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife

An Insight into the Sialome of the Lone Star Tick, Amblyomma americanum, with a Glimpse on Its Time Dependent Gene Expression

(2015) Shahid Karim et al.   PLoS One

Insect antimicrobial peptides and their applications

(2014) Hui-Yu Yi et al.   APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

PLEK: a tool for predicting long non-coding RNAs and messenger RNAs based on an improved k-mer scheme

(2014) Aimin Li et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Proteomics informed by transcriptomics identifies novel secreted proteins in Dermacentor andersoni saliva

(2014) Lwiindi Mudenda et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

A Systems Level Analysis Reveals Transcriptomic and Proteomic Complexity inIxodes RicinusMidgut and Salivary Glands During Early Attachment and Feeding

(2014) Alexandra Schwarz et al.   MOLECULAR & CELLULAR PROTEOMICS

CDD: NCBI's conserved domain database

(2014) Aron Marchler-Bauer et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The sialotranscriptome of Amblyomma triste, Amblyomma parvum and Amblyomma cajennense ticks, uncovered by 454-based RNA-seq

(2014) Gustavo Garcia et al.   Parasites & Vectors

Proteomic Analysis of Cattle Tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus Saliva: A Comparison between Partially and Fully Engorged Females

(2014) Lucas Tirloni et al.   PLoS One

Acaricide resistance in cattle ticks and approaches to its management: The state of play

(2014) Rao Z. Abbas et al.   VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY

De novo Ixodes ricinus salivary gland transcriptome analysis using two next-generation sequencing methodologies

(2013) Alexandra Schwarz et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Long Noncoding RNAs: Past, Present, and Future

(2013) J. T. Y. Kung et al.   GENETICS

De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis

(2013) Brian J Haas et al.   Nature Protocols

Structure and function of long noncoding RNAs in epigenetic regulation

(2013) Tim R Mercer et al.   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

CPAT: Coding-Potential Assessment Tool using an alignment-free logistic regression model

(2013) Liguo Wang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Antiplatelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) activity in the saliva of ixodid ticks is linked with their long mouthparts

(2013) M. Slovák et al.   PARASITE IMMUNOLOGY

Knockdown of Selenocysteine-Specific Elongation Factor in Amblyomma maculatum Alters the Pathogen Burden of Rickettsia parkeri with Epigenetic Control by the Sin3 Histone Deacetylase Corepressor Complex

(2013) Steven W. Adamson et al.   PLoS One

Novel Immunomodulators from Hard Ticks Selectively Reprogramme Human Dendritic Cell Responses

(2013) Stephen G. Preston et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Long Non-Coding RNAs in Infection Biology

(2013) Vinod Scaria et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Evolution, expansion and expression of the Kunitz/BPTI gene family associated with long-term blood feeding in Ixodes Scapularis

(2012) Shao-Xing Dai et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Cattle tick vaccines: Many candidate antigens, but will a commercially viable product emerge?

(2012) Felix D. Guerrero et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

Tick-borne diseases in cattle: Applications of proteomics to develop new generation vaccines

(2012) Isabel Marcelino et al.   Journal of Proteomics

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(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Measurement of mRNA abundance using RNA-seq data: RPKM measure is inconsistent among samples

(2012) Günter P. Wagner et al.   THEORY IN BIOSCIENCES

Identification of Differentially Expressed Genes in the Salivary Gand of Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides by the Suppression Subtractive Hybridization Approach

(2012) Fei-yu XIANG et al.   Journal of Integrative Agriculture

RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome

(2011) Bo Li et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Deconstructing Tick Saliva

(2011) Carlo José F. Oliveira et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Kaposi's Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Noncoding Polyadenylated Nuclear RNA Interacts with Virus- and Host Cell-Encoded Proteins and Suppresses Expression of Genes Involved in Immune Modulation

(2011) C. C. Rossetto et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

RNA sequencing reveals two major classes of gene expression levels in metazoan cells

(2011) D. Hebenstreit et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

SignalP 4.0: discriminating signal peptides from transmembrane regions

(2011) Thomas Nordahl Petersen et al.   NATURE METHODS

First Transcriptome of the Testis-Vas Deferens-Male Accessory Gland and Proteome of the Spermatophore from Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae)

(2011) Daniel E. Sonenshine et al.   PLoS One

A Deep Insight into the Sialotranscriptome of the Gulf Coast Tick, Amblyomma maculatum

(2011) Shahid Karim et al.   PLoS One

The expression of genes coding for distinct types of glycine-rich proteins varies according to the biology of three metastriate ticks, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, Rhipicephalus sanguineus and Amblyomma cajennense

(2010) Sandra R Maruyama et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Dynamic regulation of alternative splicing and chromatin structure in Drosophila gonads revealed by RNA-seq

(2010) Qiang Gan et al.   CELL RESEARCH

Evolution of Vertebrate Hemostatic and Inflammatory Control Mechanisms in Blood-Feeding Arthropods

(2010) Ben J. Mans   Journal of Innate Immunity

Tick Histamine Release Factor Is Critical for Ixodes scapularis Engorgement and Transmission of the Lyme Disease Agent

(2010) Jianfeng Dai et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A scaling normalization method for differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data

(2010) Mark D Robinson et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Microarray analysis of gene expression changes in feeding female and male lone star ticks,Amblyomma americanum(L)

(2009) Majd N. Aljamali et al.   ARCHIVES OF INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY

edgeR: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

(2009) M. D. Robinson et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The role of saliva in tick feeding

(2009) Ivo et al.   Frontiers in Bioscience-Landmark

An Ion-channel Modulator from the Saliva of the Brown Ear Tick has a Highly Modified Kunitz/BPTI Structure

(2009) Guido C. Paesen et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Common strategies for antigenic variation by bacterial, fungal and protozoan pathogens

(2009) Kirk W. Deitsch et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Shifts in the distributional ranges of Boophilus ticks in Tanzania: evidence that a parapatric boundary between Boophilus microplus and B. decoloratus follows climate gradients

(2008) Godelieve Lynen et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND APPLIED ACAROLOGY

Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq

(2008) Ali Mortazavi et al.   NATURE METHODS

RNA-Seq: a revolutionary tool for transcriptomics

(2008) Zhong Wang et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Proteomics Reveals Novel Drosophila Seminal Fluid Proteins Transferred at Mating

(2008) Geoffrey D Findlay et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Differentiating Protein-Coding and Noncoding RNA: Challenges and Ambiguities

(2008) Marcel E. Dinger et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Comparative sialomics between hard and soft ticks: Implications for the evolution of blood-feeding behavior

(2007) Ben J. Mans et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Climate change and the tick-borne disease, Theileriosis (East Coast fever) in sub-Saharan Africa

(2007) J.M. Olwoch et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS