Ascaroside expression in Caenorhabditis elegans is strongly dependent on diet and developmental stage

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Kaplan, Fatma ^a   Srinivasan, Jagan ^b   Mahanti, Parag ^c   Ajredini, Ramadan ^d   Durak, Omer ^b   Nimalendran, Rathika ^c   Sternberg, Paul W ^b   Teal, Peter E A ^a   Schroeder, Frank C ^c   Edison, Arthur S ^d   Alborn, Hans T ^a  

^a CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCAROSIDE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLYCOLIPID;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIET; LARVA; MATING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIFE CYCLE; MALE; METABOLISM; SECRETION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DIET; GLYCOLIPIDS; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; PHEROMONES;

EID: 79952644918     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017804     Document Type: Article

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