Amblyomma maculatum Koch, 1844 Transcriptome or Gene expression

The sialotranscriptome of the adult female Amblyomma maculatum (Gulf Coast) tick. The goal of this project was to sequence, assemble and annotate a cDNA library from the salivary glands of adult female Amblyomma maculatum ticks fed for 2-9 days on a sheep. 1,626,969 pyrosequences (raw data on SRA036543.2) were assembled into 190,646 contig, 72,441 of which were larger than 149 nt. 15,814 coding sequences were extracted from contigs having 5 or more reads. These coding sequences were annotated and compared to other tick sialotranscriptomes in a hyperlinked Excel spreadsheet.