A novel gene from the takeout family involved in termite trail-following behavior

Gene

Volumn 474, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 12-21

  Schwinghammer, Margaret A ^a,d   Zhou, Xuguo ^b,e   Kambhampati, Srinivas ^c   Bennett, Gary W ^a   Scharf, Michael E ^a,b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CNA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

2 phenoxyethanol; Behavioral gene; RNA interference; Takeout; Trail pheromone

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; DEVIATE PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; JUVENILE HORMONE; LIGAND; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TAKEOUT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BEHAVIOR; BIOASSAY; BODY REGIONS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEEDING; FORAGING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; INJECTION; INSECT CASTE; INSECT GENETICS; ISOPTERA; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MOTIVATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STARVATION; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; UBIQUITINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; ISOPTERA; JUVENILE HORMONES; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHEROMONES; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES;

EID: 79952005714     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2010.11.012     Document Type: Article

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