Table 3 Differential Abundance of Transcripts and Diversity of Types of GRPs in Salivary Gland Libraries from females of Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus SGFRm), Rhipicephalus sanguineus (SGFRs)and Amblyomma cajennense (SGFAc)

SGFRm

57

59.620

SGFRs

47

45.380

P = 0.821

SGFRm

57

45.333

SGFAc

23

35.667

P = 0.006

SGFRs

47

34.421

SGFAc

23

35.579

P = 0.003

Library

N° clusters

Library

N° clusters

P value*

Observed

Expected

Observed

Expected

SGFRm

33

27.312

SGFRs

16

22.688

P = 0.072

SGFRm

33

25.617

SGFAc

11

19.383

P = 0.015

SGFRs

16

14.130

SGFAc

11

12.870

P = 0.592

Best match to NR protein database

Library

N° of ESTs

Library

N° of ESTs

P value

Observed

Expected

Observed

Expected

gi|45479213|unknown Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides

SGFRm

21

17.678

SGFRs

10

13.322

P = 0.372

SGFRm

21

17.217

SGFAc

10

13.783

P = 0.232

Acanthoscurrin

SGFRs

6

3,301

SGFAc

1

3,699

P = 0.424

64P

SGFRs

13

9.432

SGFAc

1

4.568

P = 0.002

Silk-like proteins from true spiders

SGFRm

23

22,749

SGFRs

17

17,251

P = 0.936

SGFRm

23

17,247

SGFAc

8

13,753

P = 0.056

SGFRs

17

12,185

SGFAc

8

12,815

P = 0.396