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

Table 7 Transcripts associated with carbohydrate digestion/hydrolases

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 63	2	2	0	Cyt	Glycosyl hydrolases	glucosidase II alpha subunit [S. purpuratus]	9.E-17	EU551634
DvM 107	2	1	1	Ind	galactosidase	galactosidase, beta 1 [S. purpuratus]	7.E-27
DvM 269	1	1	0	Ind	C1-tetrahydrofolate synthase	methylene-tetrahydrofolate dehydrogenase	1.E-08
DvM 421	1	1	0	Sig	hexosaminidase B	beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase [P. mammilata]	7.E-18

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

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