Expansion of genes encoding piRNA-associated argonaute proteins in the pea aphid: Diversification of expression profiles in different plastic morphs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Lu, Hsiao ling ^a   Tanguy, Sylvie ^b   Rispe, Claude ^b   Gauthier, Jean Pierre ^b   Walsh, Tom ^c   Gordon, Karl ^c   Edwards, Owain ^c   Tagu, Denis ^b   Chang, Chun che ^a   Jaubert Possamai, Stéphanie ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; ANIMAL TISSUE; APHID; API AGO3A GENE; API AGO3B GENE; API PIWI1 GENE; API PIWI2 GENE; API PIWI3 GENE; API PIWI4 GENE; API PIWI5 GENE; API PIWI6 GENE; API PIWI7 GENE; API PIWI8 GENE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMATIC CELL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENOME; SEASON; STOP CODON;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; CELL LINEAGE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, TERMINATOR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, PLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEASONS;

EID: 82655179945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028051     Document Type: Article

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