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Liang D, Chen H, An L, Li Y, Zhao P, Upadhyay A, Hansson BS, Zhao J, Han Q. Molecular identification and functional analysis of Niemann-Pick type C2 proteins,carriers for semiochemicals and other hydrophobic compounds in the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus linnaei. PESTICIDE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY 2023; 193:105451. [PMID: 37247999 DOI: 10.1016/j.pestbp.2023.105451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2023] [Revised: 05/01/2023] [Accepted: 05/02/2023] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
Abstract
Ticks are important vectors of many pathogens with tremendous impact on human and animal health. Studies of semiochemical interactions and mechanisms underlying chemoreception can provide important tools in tick management. Niemann-Pick type C2 (NPC2) proteins have been proposed as one type of chemoreceptor in arthropods. Here, we cloned two NPC2 genes in the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus linnaei, the tropical lineage previously named R. sanguineus sensu lato and characterized them functionally. R.linNPC2a and R.linNPC2b genes were found to be expressed at each developmental stage with the highest level in adult males. By using quantitative real-time PCR we revealed expression in multiple tissues, including midgut, ovary, salivary glands and legs. Ligand binding analysis revealed that R.linNPC2b bound a wide spectrum of compounds, with β-ionone, α-amylcinnamaldehyde, 2-nitrophenol and benzaldehyde displaying the strongest binding affinity (Ki < 10 μM), whereas R.linNPC2a showed a more narrow ligand binding range, with intermediate binding affinity to α-amylcinnamaldehyde and 2-nitrophenol (Ki < 20 μM). Molecular docking indicated that the amino acid residue Phe89, Leu77 and Val131 of R.linNPC2a and Phe70, Leu132 and Phe73 of R.linNPC2b could bind multiple ligands. These residues might thus play a key role in the identification of the volatiles. Our results contribute to the understanding of olfactory mechanisms of R. linnaei and can offer new pathways towards new management strategies.
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- Dejuan Liang
- Laboratory of Tropical Veterinary Medicine and Vector Biology, School of Life Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China; One Health Institute, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China
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- Laboratory of Tropical Veterinary Medicine and Vector Biology, School of Life Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China; One Health Institute, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China
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- Laboratory of Tropical Veterinary Medicine and Vector Biology, School of Life Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China; One Health Institute, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China
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- Laboratory of Tropical Veterinary Medicine and Vector Biology, School of Life Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China; One Health Institute, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China
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- Laboratory of Tropical Veterinary Medicine and Vector Biology, School of Life Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China; One Health Institute, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China
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- Laboratory of Tropical Veterinary Medicine and Vector Biology, School of Life Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China; One Health Institute, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China
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- Department of Evolutionary Neuroethology, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, 07745 Jena, Germany
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- Laboratory of Tropical Veterinary Medicine and Vector Biology, School of Life Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China; One Health Institute, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China.
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- Laboratory of Tropical Veterinary Medicine and Vector Biology, School of Life Sciences, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China; One Health Institute, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China.
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Gulia-Nuss M, Nuss AB, Meyer JM, Sonenshine DE, Roe RM, Waterhouse RM, Sattelle DB, de la Fuente J, Ribeiro JM, Megy K, Thimmapuram J, Miller JR, Walenz BP, Koren S, Hostetler JB, Thiagarajan M, Joardar VS, Hannick LI, Bidwell S, Hammond MP, Young S, Zeng Q, Abrudan JL, Almeida FC, Ayllón N, Bhide K, Bissinger BW, Bonzon-Kulichenko E, Buckingham SD, Caffrey DR, Caimano MJ, Croset V, Driscoll T, Gilbert D, Gillespie JJ, Giraldo-Calderón GI, Grabowski JM, Jiang D, Khalil SMS, Kim D, Kocan KM, Koči J, Kuhn RJ, Kurtti TJ, Lees K, Lang EG, Kennedy RC, Kwon H, Perera R, Qi Y, Radolf JD, Sakamoto JM, Sánchez-Gracia A, Severo MS, Silverman N, Šimo L, Tojo M, Tornador C, Van Zee JP, Vázquez J, Vieira FG, Villar M, Wespiser AR, Yang Y, Zhu J, Arensburger P, Pietrantonio PV, Barker SC, Shao R, Zdobnov EM, Hauser F, Grimmelikhuijzen CJP, Park Y, Rozas J, Benton R, Pedra JHF, Nelson DR, Unger MF, Tubio JMC, Tu Z, Robertson HM, Shumway M, Sutton G, Wortman JR, Lawson D, Wikel SK, Nene VM, Fraser CM, Collins FH, Birren B, Nelson KE, Caler E, Hill CA. Genomic insights into the Ixodes scapularis tick vector of Lyme disease. Nat Commun 2016; 7:10507. [PMID: 26856261 PMCID: PMC4748124 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 344] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2015] [Accepted: 12/12/2015] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Ticks transmit more pathogens to humans and animals than any other arthropod. We describe the 2.1 Gbp nuclear genome of the tick, Ixodes scapularis (Say), which vectors pathogens that cause Lyme disease, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, babesiosis and other diseases. The large genome reflects accumulation of repetitive DNA, new lineages of retro-transposons, and gene architecture patterns resembling ancient metazoans rather than pancrustaceans. Annotation of scaffolds representing ∼57% of the genome, reveals 20,486 protein-coding genes and expansions of gene families associated with tick-host interactions. We report insights from genome analyses into parasitic processes unique to ticks, including host 'questing', prolonged feeding, cuticle synthesis, blood meal concentration, novel methods of haemoglobin digestion, haem detoxification, vitellogenesis and prolonged off-host survival. We identify proteins associated with the agent of human granulocytic anaplasmosis, an emerging disease, and the encephalitis-causing Langat virus, and a population structure correlated to life-history traits and transmission of the Lyme disease agent.
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- Monika Gulia-Nuss
- Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginina 23529, USA
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- Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva 1211, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva 1211, Switzerland
- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Centre for Respiratory Biology, UCL Respiratory Department, Division of Medicine, University College London, Rayne Building, 5 University Street, London WC1E 6JF, UK
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- SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos, IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ronda de Toledo sn, Ciudad Real 13005, Spain
- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, 250 McElroy Hall, Stillwater, Oklahama 74078, USA
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- Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIAID, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA
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- VectorBase/EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- Bioinformatics Core, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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- J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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- VectorBase/EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- Departament de Genètica & Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona E-08028, Spain
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- SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos, IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ronda de Toledo sn, Ciudad Real 13005, Spain
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- Bioinformatics Core, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA
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- Vascular Physiopathology, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Centre for Respiratory Biology, UCL Respiratory Department, Division of Medicine, University College London, Rayne Building, 5 University Street, London WC1E 6JF, UK
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030, USA
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- Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland
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- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology Program, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
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- Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology Program, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
- Department Biological Sciences, Markey Center for Structural Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Department of Microbial Molecular Biology, Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute, Giza 12619, Egypt
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- Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Center for Veterinary Health Sciences, Oklahoma State University, 250 McElroy Hall, Stillwater, Oklahama 74078, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Department Biological Sciences, Markey Center for Structural Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
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- Department of Neurosystems, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK
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- Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department Biological Sciences, Markey Center for Structural Biology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut 06030, USA
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- Department of Entomology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Departament de Genètica & Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona E-08028, Spain
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- Department of Entomology, Center for Disease Vector Research, University of California, Riverside, California 92506, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Department of Pathology, Cambridge Genomic Services, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QP, UK
- Department of Physiology, School of Medicine-CIMUS-Instituto de Investigaciones Sanitarias, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela 15782, Spain
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- Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona 08003, Spain
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- Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Vascular Physiopathology, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares, Madrid 28029, Spain
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- Departament de Genètica & Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona E-08028, Spain
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- SaBio, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos, IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ronda de Toledo sn, Ciudad Real 13005, Spain
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
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- Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California 91768, USA
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- Parasitology Section, School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
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- GeneCology Research Centre, Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Queensland 4556, Australia
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- Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva Medical School, Geneva 1211, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva 1211, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, Center for Functional and Comparative Insect Genomics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark
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- Department of Biology, Center for Functional and Comparative Insect Genomics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-2100, Denmark
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- Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA
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- Departament de Genètica & Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona E-08028, Spain
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- Center for Integrative Genomics, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland
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- Department of Entomology, Center for Disease Vector Research, University of California, Riverside, California 92506, USA
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- Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Biochemistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee 38163, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- Cancer Genome Project, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton CB10 1SA, UK
- Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, University of Vigo, Vigo 36310, Spain
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- Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA
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- Department of Entomology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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- J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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- VectorBase/EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut 06518, USA
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- Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA
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- The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
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- J. Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
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- Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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