Title: | Sequencing of Culex quinquefasciatus establishes a platform for
mosquito comparative genomics |
Author: | Arensburger, Peter Megy, Karine Waterhouse, Robert M. Abrudan, Jenica Amedeo, Paolo Antelo, Beatriz Bartholomay, Lyric Bidwell, Shelby Caler, Elisabet Camara, Francisco Campbell, Corey L. Campbell, Kathryn S. Casola, Claudio Castro, Marta T. Chandramouliswaran, Ishwar Chapman, Sinéad B. Christley, Scott Costas, Javier Eisenstadt, Eric Feschotte, Cedric Fraser-Liggett, Claire Guigó Serra, Roderic Haas, Brian Hammond, Martin Hansson, Bill S. Hemingway, Janet Hill, Sharon Howarth, Clint Ignell, Rickard Kennedy, Ryan C. Kodira, Chinnappa D. Lobo, Neil F. Mao, Chunhong Mayhew, George Michel, Kristin Mori, Akio Liu, Nannan Naveira, Horacio Nene, Vishvanath Nguyen, Nam Pearson, Matthew D. Pritham, Ellen J. Puiu, Daniela Qi, Yumin Ranson, Hilary Ribeiro, Jose M. C. Roberston, Hugh M. Severson, David W. Shumway, Martin Stanke, Mario Strausberg, Robert Sun, Cheng Sutton, Granger Tu, Zhijian (Jake) Tubio, Jose M. C. Unger, Maria F Vanlandingham, Dana L. Vilella, Albert J. White, Owen White, Jared R. Wondji, Charles S. Wortman, Jennifer Zdobnov, Evgeny M. Birren, Bruce Christensen, Bruce M. Collins, Frank H. Cornel, Anthony Dimopoulos, George Hannick, Linda I. Higgs, Stephen Lanzaro, Gregory C. Lawson, Daniel Lee, Norman H. Muskavitch, Marc A. T. Raikhel, Alexander S. Atkinson, Peter W. |
Keywords: | Malalties parasitàries Parasitic diseases |
Issue Date: | 1-Oct-2010 |
Publisher: | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
Abstract: | Culex quinquefasciatus (the southern house mosquito) is an important mosquito vector of viruses such as West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis virus, as well as of nematodes that cause lymphatic filariasis. C. quinquefasciatus is one species within the Culex pipiens species complex and can be found throughout tropical and temperate climates of the world. The ability of C. quinquefasciatus to take blood meals from birds, livestock, and humans contributes to its ability to vector pathogens between species. Here, we describe the genomic sequence of C. quinquefasciatus: Its repertoire of 18,883 protein-coding genes is 22% larger than that of Aedes aegypti and 52% larger than that of Anopheles gambiae with multiple gene-family expansions, including olfactory and gustatory receptors, salivary gland genes, and genes associated with xenobiotic detoxification. |
Note: | Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1191864 |
It is part of: | Science, 2010, vol. 330, num. 6000, p. 86-88 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/126802 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1191864 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Institut d'lnvestigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL))
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