Development of an RNA interference tool, characterization of its target, and an ecological test of caste differentiation in the eusocial wasp Polistes

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Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Hunt, James H ^a   Mutti, Navdeep S ^b   Havukainen, Heli ^c,d   Henshaw, Michael T ^e   Amdam, Gro V ^b,c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^e GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGLYCOSYLATION; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; HEXAMERIN 2 GENE; INSECT CASTE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL STAGE; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COLONY; POLISTES METRICUS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEOMICS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WASP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOLOGY; GLYCOSYLATION; HEMOLYMPH; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; WASPS;

HEXAPODA; POLISTES; POLISTES METRICUS; POLISTINAE;

EID: 84858261049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026641     Document Type: Article

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