Massively parallel amplicon sequencing reveals isotype-specific variability of antimicrobial peptide transcripts in mytilus galloprovincialis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Rosani, Umberto ^a   Varotto, Laura ^a   Rossi, Alberta ^a   Roch, Philippe ^b   Novoa, Beatriz ^c   Figueras, Antonio ^c   Pallavicini, Alberto ^d   Venier, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD LIKE DEFENSIN; MGD1 PROTEIN; MGD2 PROTEIN; MYTICIN C; MYTILIN; MYTILIN C; MYTILIN D; MYTIMYCIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HEMOLYMPH; HYDROPHOBICITY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; ITALY; LAGOON; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PYROSEQUENCING; SEASHORE; SPAIN; VIBRIO; VIBRIO SPLENDIDUS; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MYTILUS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); INVERTEBRATA; MYTILUS GALLOPROVINCIALIS; VIBRIO;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; EUROPE; GENETIC VARIATION; HEMOCYTES; HEMOLYMPH; MYTILUS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 80555146634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026680     Document Type: Article

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