Unbiased transcriptional comparisons of generalist and specialist herbivores feeding on progressively defenseless Nicotiana attenuata plants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Govind, Geetha ^a   Mittapalli, Omprakash ^a,c   Griebel, Thasso ^b   Allmann, Silke ^a   Böcker, Sebastian ^b   Baldwin, Ian Thomas ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DOWN REGULATION; FEEDING; GENE CONTROL; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HERBIVORE; LARVA; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA ATTENUATA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; TOBACCO; WILD TYPE; WORM; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LEPIDOPTERA; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; MANDUCA SEXTA; NICOTIANA ATTENUATA;

ANIMALS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; MANDUCA; MOTHS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOBACCO; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77649327875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008735     Document Type: Article

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