Pyrokinin β-neuropeptide affects necrophoretic behavior in fire ants (s. invicta), and expression of β-np in a mycoinsecticide increases its virulence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Fan, Yanhua ^a,b   Pereira, Roberto M ^b   Kilic, Engin ^b   Casella, George ^b   Keyhani, Nemat O ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; PYROKININ BETA NEUROPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; INSECTICIDE; PYROKININ;

AMIDATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEAUVERIA BASSIANA; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LEPIDOPTERA; MICROBIAL PEST CONTROL; NECROPHORETIC BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; ANIMAL; ANT; BEAUVERIA; CADAVER; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; VIRULENCE;

CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; HEXAPODA; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEAUVERIA; CADAVER; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FUNGI; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; NEUROPEPTIDES; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84855371107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026924     Document Type: Article

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