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SUBMITTER: Francischetti IM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2904962 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Francischetti Ivo M B IM Lopes Angela H AH Dias Felipe A FA Pham Van M VM Ribeiro José M C JM
Insect biochemistry and molecular biology 20070503 9
The salivary transcriptome of the seed-feeding hemipteran, Oncopeltus fasciatus (milkweed bug), is described following assembly of 1025 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) into 305 clusters of related sequences. Inspection of these sequences reveals abundance of low complexity, putative secreted products rich in the amino acids (aa) glycine, serine or threonine, which might function as silk or mucins and assist food canal lubrication and sealing of the feeding site around the mouthparts. Several prot ...[more]