Antibacterial peptide defensin is involved in midgut immunity of the soft tick, Ornithodoros moubata
- 5 November 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Insect Molecular Biology
- Vol. 11 (6) , 611-618
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2583.2002.00372.x
Abstract
Two defensin genes A and B were previously demonstrated to be up‐regulated by blood feeding in the soft tick, Ornithodoros moubata[Nakajima et al. (2001) Two isoforms of a member of the arthropod def...Keywords
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