Solenopsis invicta transferrin: cDNA cloning, gene architecture, and up-regulation in response to Beauveria bassiana infection

Gene

Volumn 358, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 60-66

  Valles, Steven M ^a   Pereira, Roberto M ^a  

^a CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Q PCR; Solenopsis invicta; Transferrin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSFERRIN;

ANT; ARTICLE; AUTOCLAVE; BEAUVERIA; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; INSECT; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GENOME; INSECT PROTEINS; MYCOSES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SORDARIALES; TRANSFERRIN; UP-REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BEAUVERIA; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 24944515848     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.05.017     Document Type: Article

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