Beetle immunity: Identification of immune-inducible genes from the model insect Tribolium castaneum

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 585-595

  Altincicek, Boran ^a   Knorr, Eileen ^a   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Defensin; Innate immunity; Model organism; Stress response; Thaumatin; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ACYLTRANSFERASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; APOLIPOPROTEIN D; BETA TUBULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450; DEFENSIN; ENDONUCLEASE; ESTERASE; FERRITIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 68; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LYSOZYME; MYOSIN VI; PEPTIDOGLYCAN RECOGNITION PROTEIN; PROCOLLAGEN PROLINE 2 OXOGLUTARATE 4 DIOXYGENASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE 8; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; THAUMATIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; TRYPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HONEYBEE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEPSIS; SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; TRIBOLIUM; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

APIS; COLEOPTERA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 38649126234     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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