Integrated analysis of the sialotrancriptome and sialoproteome of the rat flea Xenopsylla cheopis.

. Here we provide a deeper insight into Xenopsylla cheopis salivary glands contents pairing transcriptome and proteomic approaches. Sequencing of 99 pairs of salivary glands from adult females X. cheopis yielded a total of 7,432 coding sequences functionally classified into 25 classes, in which the secreted class was found to be the most abundant one. The translated transcripts also served as a reference database for the proteomic study, which identified peptides from 610 different proteins.