Diversity of beetle genes encoding novel plant cell wall degrading enzymes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Pauchet, Yannick ^a,b   Wilkinson, Paul ^a   Chauhan, Ritika ^a   Ffrench Constant, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; PLANT CELL WALL DEGRADING ENZYME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT GENOME; MIDGUT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PYROSEQUENCING; SYMBIONT; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL WALL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

COLEOPTERA; DEUTEROSTOMIA; HEXAPODA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BEETLES; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CELL WALL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 78650761333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015635     Document Type: Article

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