4d.Progress report.
This report serves to document research conducted under a reimbursable cooperative agreement between ARS and Washington State University resulting from a CSREES grant jointly awarded to ARS and WSU scientists. Additional details of research can be found in the report for the parent project, 6205-32000-026-00D, Molecular Biology of Boophilus microplus.

The long term objective is an enhanced understanding of the B. microplus-pathogen interaction and the identification of specific pathways that are regulated at the time when pathogen infectivity develops and transmission occurs. We propose to develop integrated pathogen-tick vector microarrays and use them to identify networks of pathogen-tick vector gene expression profiles during the development of Anaplasma marginale infectivity within B. microplus.

This is a new project and there is no activity to report at this time.