Transcriptional responses in Honey Bee larvae infected with chalkbrood fungus

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Aronstein, Katherine A ^a   Murray, Keith D ^a   Saldivar, Eduardo ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RNA; DRUG; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; ASCOSPHAERA APIS; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HONEYBEE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOSQUITO; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BEE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE COURSE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUSE; ONYGENALES; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; ASCOSPHAERA; FUNGI; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BEES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; LIPID METABOLISM; MICE; MYCOSES; NF-KAPPA B; ONYGENALES; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77953663202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-391     Document Type: Article

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