Formation of rigid, non-flight forewings (Elytra) of a beetle requires two major cuticular proteins

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Arakane, Yasuyuki ^a,b   Lomakin, Joseph ^c   Gehrke, Stevin H ^c   Hiromasa, Yasuaki ^a   Tomich, John M ^a   Muthukrishnan, Subbaratnam ^a   Beeman, Richard W ^d   Kramer, Karl J ^a,d   Kanost, Michael R ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^c University of Kansas   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PROTEIN CPR18; PROTEIN CPR27; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CUTICLE PROTEINS, INSECTS; INSECT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPR18 GENE; CPR27 GENE; CROSS LINKING; CUTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; FOREWING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; LARVAL STAGE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); RNA INTERFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; ANIMAL; FORELIMB; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; WING;

EID: 84860583822     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002682     Document Type: Article

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