Identification of immune-related genes from an apterygote insect, the firebrat Thermobia domestica

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 726-731

  Altincicek, Boran ^a   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apterygote insects; Defensin; Innate immunity; Thermobia domestica

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; DEFENSIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INSECT DEFENSIN A; INSECT PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DEFENSINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

APTERYGOTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; LEPISMATIDAE; THERMOBIA DOMESTICA; THYSANURA;

EID: 34249731435     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2007.03.012     Document Type: Article

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