Exploring systemic RNA interference in insects: A genome-wide survey for RNAi genes in Tribolium

Genome Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Tomoyasu, Yoshinori ^a   Miller, Sherry C ^a   Tomita, Shuichiro ^b   Schoppmeier, Michael ^c   Grossmann, Daniela ^d   Bucher, Gregor ^d  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PROTEIN SID 1; PROTEIN TAG 130;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; INSECT GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEST CONTROL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRIBOLIUM; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENES, INSECT; GENOME, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 41949104147     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-1-r10     Document Type: Article

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