Transcriptome profiling of female alates and egg-laying queens of the Formosan subterranean termite

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part D: Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 14-27

  Husseneder, Claudia ^a   McGregor, Cecilia ^a,b   Lang, R Paul ^a   Collier, Rachael ^a   Delatte, Jennifer ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EST; Gene expression; Microarray; PCR; Reproduction; Social insect

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 4C; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE LIKE PROTEIN; GRAM NEGATIVE BINDING PROTEIN; HEXAMERIN; INSECT PROTEIN; JUVENILE HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; TERMITE DERIVED ENDO BETA 1,4 GLUCANASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HYBRIDIZATION; ISOPTERA; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84855217758     PISSN: 1744117X     EISSN: 18780407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbd.2011.10.002     Document Type: Article

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