Analysis of a normalised expressed sequence tag (EST) library from a key pollinator, the bumblebee Bombus terrestris

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Sadd, Ben M ^a   Kube, Michael ^b   Klages, Sven ^b   Reinhardt, Richard ^b   Schmid Hempel, Paul ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CONTIG; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA LIBRARY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HONEYBEE; IMMUNE RESPONSE GENE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRIBOLIUM; UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; BEE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BEES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC MARKERS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77949437244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-110     Document Type: Article

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