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The salivary gland transcriptome of the neotropical malaria vector Anopheles darlingi reveals accelerated evolution of genes relevant to hematophagy

Eric Calvo1, Van M Pham1, Osvaldo Marinotti2, John F Andersen1 and José MC Ribeiro1*

1 Section of Vector Biology, Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD 20852, USA

2 Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3900, USA

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BMC Genomics 2009, 10:57 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-57

Published: 29 January 2009

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Additional file 1:

Assembled and annotated sialotranscriptome of An. darlingi female mosquitoes. Hyperlinked Excel spreadsheet and associated files with EST assembly results. This is a compressed ZIP file that should be expanded to a new directory. After this is done, start Excel and then open the file ending in .xls so the hyperlinks will work.

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Additional file 2:

Annotated sialotranscriptome of An. darlingi female mosquitoes. Hyperlinked Excel spreadsheet with deducted protein sequences. See description above.

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