An insight into the sialotranscriptome and virome of amazonian anophelines
Background: Saliva of mosquitoes contains anti-platelet, anti-clotting, vasodilatory, anti-complement and antiinflammatory
substances that help the blood feeding process. The salivary polypeptides are at a fast pace of
evolution possibly due to their relative lack of structural constraint and possibly also by positive selection on their
genes leading to evasion of host immune pressure.
Results: In this study, we used deep mRNA sequence to uncover for the first time the sialomes of four Amazonian