Exploring the mialome of ticks: an annotated catalogue of midgut transcripts from the hard tick, Dermacentor variabilis (Acari: Ixodidae)

Table 4 Transcripts associated with oxidative stress, oxidase-related antimicrobial activity or detoxification

Transcript	Total	6 d fed	Unfed/2 d fed	Sig	Putative Function	Best match to NR protein database	E value	GenBank*
	Number of ESTs
DvM 453	1	1	0	Cyt	aldehyde dehydrogenase	mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase	2E-047	EU551612
DvM 401	1	1	0	Cyt	glutaredoxin	glutaredoxin [A. aegypti]	3E-017	EU551603
DvM 122	2	0	2	Ind	Glutathione peroxidase	phospholipid-hydroperoxide glutathion	1E-087	EU551610
DvM 10	9	9	0	Cyt	glutathione S-transferase	glutathione S-transferase [D. variablis]	2E-082	EU551642
DvM 102	2	2	0	Cyt	glutathione S-transferase	glutathione S-transferase [B. microplus]	1E-117	EU551607
DvM 164	1	1	0	Cyt	glutathione S-transferase	glutathione S-transferase [H. longicornis]	3E-011	EU551608
DvM 277	1	1	0	Ind	glutathione S-transferase	glutathione S-transferase [D. variablis]	1E-004
DvM 286	1	1	0	Cyt	glutathione S-transferase	glutathione S-transferase [D. variablis]	2E-026
DvM 404	1	1	0	Cyt	glutathione S-transferase	glutathione S-transferase [D. variablis]	5E-008	EU551609
DvM 22	6	2	4	Cyt	Metallothionein	ligand-regulated transcription factor	0.35
DvM 695	1	0	1	SIG	Microsomal GST	MGST 3 [S. purpuratus]	6E-038	EU551606
DvM 258	1	1	0	Cyt	Protein disulfide isomerase	CG5809-PA [A. mellifera]	1E-010
DvM 565	1	0	1	Ind	quinoid dihydropteridine reductase	quinoid dihydropteridine reductase [G. gallus]	7E-076
DvM 143	1	1	0	Ind	selenoprotein M precursor	salivary selenoprotein M [I. scapularis]	3E-006
DvM 199	1	1	0	Ind	superoxide dismutase	superoxide dismutase	3E-041	EU551611
DvM 235	1	1	0	Cyt	Thioredoxin	fed tick salivary protein 3 [I. scapularis]	4E-038	EU551605
DvM 509	1	0	1	Ind	Thioredoxin	hypothetical protein [X. tropicalis]	1E-011

*Accession number represents transcripts derived from this analysis and submitted to Genbank.

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