Antimicrobial peptide-like genes in Nasonia vitripennis: A genomic perspective

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tian, Caihuan ^a   Gao, Bin ^a   Fang, Qi ^b   Ye, Gongyin ^b   Zhu, Shunyi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABAESCIN DERIVATIVE; CYSTEINE; DEFENSIN; HEYMENOPTAECIN DERIVATIVE; NASONIN DERIVATIVE; NAVIDEFENSIN DERIVATIVE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TACHYSTATIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE;

ALPHA HELIX; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; DATA MINING; DNA SHUFFLING; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOMICS; MICROBIAL IMMUNITY; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; WASP; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOME; HYMENOPTERA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; MEROSTOMATA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; VESPOIDEA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENOME, INSECT; HYMENOPTERA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77952574438     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-187     Document Type: Article

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