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<h2 id="genomes-covered-in-the-vectorbase-database">Genomes covered in the VectorBase database</h2> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Aedes_aegypti/Y143uAaE">Aedes aegypti</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Anopheles_gambiae/E4rFCGYF">Anopheles gambiae</a></i><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Culex_quinquefasciatus/l0h00TCE">Culex quinquefasciatus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Ixodes_scapularis/wdgwNT2R">Ixodes scapularis</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Pediculus_humanus/1lEuI49u">Pediculus humanus</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/facts/Rhodnius_prolixus/bdtNrAIQ">Rhodnius prolixus</a></i></li></ul> <h2 id="tools-available-through-the-vectorbase-site">Tools available through the VectorBase site</h2> <ul><li>Genome browser</li> <li>Community annotation system</li> <li>Microarray and gene expression repository</li> <li>Controlled vocabularies for anatomy,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> <a href="/facts/Insecticide_resistance/FvetsYFQ">insecticide resistance</a> and vector-borne diseases (malaria and dengue fever)</li> <li>BLAST searches for all covered genomes</li></ul> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Vector_(epidemiology)/bepASE2M">Vectors in epidemiology</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.vectorbase.org">vectorbase.org</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090420082012/http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/research/resources/brc/default.htm">Bioinformatics Resource Centers</a> The NIAID page describing the goals and activities of the BRCs</li> <li><a href="http://www.brc-central.org/cgi-bin/brc-central/brc_central.cgi">Pathogen Portal</a> Hub site for the five BRCs; provides summary information</li></ul> VectorBase genome browsers <ul><li><a href="https://www.vectorbase.org/Aedes_aegypti/Info/"><i>Aedes aegypti</i> genome browser</a> at VectorBase</li> <li><a href="https://www.vectorbase.org/Anopheles_gambiae/Info/"><i>Anopheles gambiae</i> genome browser</a> at VectorBase</li> <li><a href="https://www.vectorbase.org/Culex_quinquefasciatus/Info/"><i>Culex quinquefasciatus</i> genome browser</a> at VectorBase</li> <li><a href="https://www.vectorbase.org/Ixodes_scapualris/Info/"><i>Ixodes scapularis</i> genome browser</a> at VectorBase</li> <li><a href="https://www.vectorbase.org/Pediculus_humanus/Info/"><i>Pediculus humanus</i> genome browser</a> at VectorBase</li> <li><a href="https://www.vectorbase.org/Rhodnius_prolixus/Info/"><i>Rhodnius prolixus</i> genome browser</a> at VectorBase</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Lawson, D; Arensburger, P; Atkinson, P; Besansky, NJ; Bruggner, RV; Butler, R; Campbell, KS; Christophides, GK; et al. (2007). "VectorBase: a home for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens". Nucleic Acids Research. 35 (Database issue): D503–5. doi:10.1093/nar/gkl960. PMC 1751530. PMID 17145709. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1751530" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1751530</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Lawson, D; Arensburger, P; Atkinson, P; Besansky, NJ; Bruggner, RV; Butler, R; Campbell, KS; Christophides, GK; et al. (2009). "VectorBase: a data resource for invertebrate vector genomics". Nucleic Acids Research. 37 (Database issue): D583–7. doi:10.1093/nar/gkn857. PMC 2686483. PMID 19028744. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2686483" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2686483</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Nene, V; Wortman, JR; Lawson, D; Haas, B; Kodira, C; Tu, ZJ; Loftus, B; Xi, Z; et al. (2007). "Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector". Science. 316 (5832): 1718–23. Bibcode:2007Sci...316.1718N. doi:10.1126/science.1138878. PMC 2868357. PMID 17510324. <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2868357" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2868357</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Holt, RA; Subramanian, GM; Halpern, A; Sutton, GG; Charlab, R; Nusskern, DR; Wincker, P; Clark, AG; et al. (2002). "The genome sequence of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae". Science. 298 (5591): 129–49. Bibcode:2002Sci...298..129H. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.149.9058. doi:10.1126/science.1076181. PMID 12364791. S2CID 4512225. <a href="/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Bibcode_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Topalis, P; Tzavlaki, C; Vestaki, K; Dialynas, E; Sonenshine, DE; Butler, R; Bruggner, RV; Stinson, EO; et al. (2008). "Anatomical ontologies of mosquitoes and ticks, and their web browsers in VectorBase". Insect Molecular Biology. 17 (1): 87–9. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2583.2008.00781.x. PMID 18237287. S2CID 8618269. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/Doi_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>