Comparative salivary gland transcriptomics of sandfly vectors of visceral leishmaniasis.

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Published in BMC Genomics on March 15, 2006

Authors

Jennifer M Anderson1, Fabiano Oliveira, Shaden Kamhawi, Ben J Mans, David Reynoso, Amy E Seitz, Phillip Lawyer, Mark Garfield, Myvan Pham, Jesus G Valenzuela

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIAID, NIH, USA. jenanderson@niaid.nih.gov

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