| Title |
Variability and Action Mechanism of a Family of Anticomplement Proteins in Ixodes ricinus
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, January 2008
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0001400 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Bernard Couvreur, Jérôme Beaufays, Cédric Charon, Kathia Lahaye, François Gensale, Valérie Denis, Benoît Charloteaux, Yves Decrem, Pierre-Paul Prévôt, Michel Brossard, Luc Vanhamme, Edmond Godfroid |
| Abstract |
Ticks are blood feeding arachnids that characteristically take a long blood meal. They must therefore counteract host defence mechanisms such as hemostasis, inflammation and the immune response. This is achieved by expressing batteries of salivary proteins coded by multigene families. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 68 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 68 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 24% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 10% |
| Researcher | 7 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 9% |
| Other | 14 | 21% |
| Unknown | 10 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 32 | 47% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 18% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 9% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 3 | 4% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
| Unknown | 10 | 15% |