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BMC Genomics BioMed Central Research article Open Access Annotation and analysis of a large cuticular protein family with the RR Consensus in Anopheles gambiae †1 †1 1 2 R Scott Cornman , Toru Togawa , W Augustine Dunn , Ningjia He , 1 1 Aaron C Emmons and Judith H Willis* Address: 1Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602 USA and 2The Key Laboratory of Sericulture, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, PR China Email: R Scott Cornman - scornman@; Toru Togawa - togawa@; W Augustine Dunn - wadunn83@; Ningjia He - hejia@; Aaron C Emmons - acemmons@; Judith H Willis* - jhwillis@ * Corresponding author †Equal contributors Published: 18 January 2008 Received: 8 August 2007 Accepted: 18 January 2008 BMC Genomics 2008, 9:22 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-9-22 This article is available from: /1471-2164/9/22 © 2008 Cornman et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: The most abundant family of insect cuticular proteins, the CPR family, is recognized by the RR Consensus, a domain of about 64 amino acids that binds to chitin and is present