Comparative analysis of expressed sequence tags from three castes and two life stages of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Steller, Matthew M ^a   Kambhampati, Srinivas ^a   Caragea, Doina ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECT PROTEIN; LIGASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ARTHROPOD LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOMICS; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; INSECT CASTE; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPRODUCTION; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE;

APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; INSECT PROTEINS; ISOPTERA; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77955214743     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-463     Document Type: Article

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