BMC Genomics

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Analysis of expression in the Anopheles gambiae developing testes reveals rapidly evolving lineage-specific genes in mosquitoes

Elzbieta Krzywinska1 and Jaroslaw Krzywinski1,2*

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1 Department of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas 76019, USA

2 Vector Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool L3 5QA, UK

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:300 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-300

Published: 6 July 2009

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Genomic context and EST evidence for the identified genes, primer sequences used for the RT-PCR analyses of their expression in An. gambiae, Ae. aegypti and Cx. quinqufasciatus, and details on SSH fragments lacking male-biased expression.

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Amino acid sequence alignments.

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