Horizontally transferred fungal carotenoid genes in the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 253-257

  Altincicek, Boran ^a,b   Kovacs, Jennifer L ^a   Gerardo, Nicole M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acyrthosiphon pisum; Carotene; Lateral gene transfer; Mites; Pigments

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; APHID; CAROTENOID; DIAPAUSE; DIET; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENOME; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; MITE; PHOTOOXIDATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENETICS; SOLAR RADIATION;

ACARI; ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; ALGAE; ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE;

EID: 84860320217     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0704     Document Type: Article

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