A comprehensive transcriptome and immune-gene repertoire of the lepidopteran model host Galleria mellonella

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Vogel, Heiko ^a   Altincicek, Boran ^b   Glöckner, Gernot ^c   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MELANIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LARVAL STAGE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; STRESS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LEPIDOPTERA; METARHIZIUM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GALLERIA; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HEXAPODA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, INSECT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; LEPIDOPTERA; METARHIZIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79958161502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-308     Document Type: Article

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