Transcriptome analysis of the Chinese white wax scale Ericerus pela with focus on genes involved in wax biosynthesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Yang, Pu ^a   Zhu, Jia Ying ^b   Gong, Zhong Jun ^c   Xu, Dong Li ^a   Chen, Xiao Ming ^a   Liu, Wei Wei ^a   Lin, Xin Da ^d   Li, Yan Fei ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d CHINA JILIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; WAX;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FAR GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INSECT; LARVA; LARVAL STAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; WHITE WAX SCALE; WS1 GENE; ANIMAL; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEMIPTERA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANIMALS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HEMIPTERA; LARVA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTOME; WAXES;

EID: 84859945419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035719     Document Type: Article

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