Summary: Insect Molecular Biology (2006) 15(4), 411­424
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Analysis of fat body transcriptome from the adult tsetse
fly, Glossina morsitans morsitans
G. M. Attardo*, P. Strickler-Dinglasan1,
*,
S. A. H. Perkin*, E. Caler, M. F. Bonaldo,
M. B. Soares, N. El-Sayeed and S. Aksoy*
*Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Section of
Vector Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, 60
College St, 606 LEPH, New Haven, CT USA; Children's
Memorial Research Center, North-Western University,
Chicago, IL, USA; The Institute for Genomic Research,
9712 Medical Center Drive Rockville, MD, USA
Abstract
Tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidia) are vectors of path-
ogenic African trypanosomes.To develop a foundation
for tsetse physiology, a normalized expressed sequence
tag (EST) library was constructed from fat body tissue

Source: Aksoy, Serap - School of Public Health, Yale University

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