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Title: Haller's Organ transcriptome database derived from Australian population of the cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus

Author
item Heekin, Andrew
item Guerrero, Felicito
item LEW-TABOR, A - University Of Queensland
item Dowd, Scot
item MOOLHUIJZEN, P - Murdoch University
item BELGARD, M - Murdoch University

Submitted to: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Publication Type: Other
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/7/2012
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: N/A

Interpretive Summary: The Southern cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, vectors Babesia bovis and B. bigemina, which are the protozoans causing cattle fever, a disease that is responsible for significant production losses to cattle producers in much of Africa, Central and South America, and Australia. We initiated a study of the expressed genes of the Haller's organ of ticks collected from an Australian population in an attempt to identify tick genes which are involved in host recognition and might be candidates for development of anti-tick or anti-Babesia control technologies. We applied a technique known as next-generation 454 pyrosequencing to dissected Haller's organ from the Australian ticks. Thus, we have produced a very large DNA sequence database consisting of gene coding regions from expressed genes in the Haller's organ of Australian ticks. The sets of sequences have been submitted and published under NCBI SRA Accession Number SRA052633.1.

Technical Abstract: The Southern cattle tick, Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus, vectors Babesia bovis and B. bigemina, which are the protozoans causing cattle fever, a disease that is responsible for significant production losses to cattle producers in much of Africa, Central and South America, and Australia. We initiated a study of the transcriptome of the Haller's organ from ticks collected from an Australian cattle tick population in an attempt to identify tick genes which are involved in sensory mechanisms and might be candidates for development of anti-tick or anti-Babesia control technologies. We applied 454 pyrosequencing to dissected Haller's organ from the Australian ticks and have produced a very large DNA sequence database of this transcriptome. The sets of sequences have been submitted and published under NCBI SRA Accession Number SRA052633.1.