Larval midgut modifications associated with Bti resistance in the yellow fever mosquito using proteomic and transcriptomic approaches

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Tetreau, Guillaume ^a   Bayyareddy, Krishnareddy ^b   Jones, Christopher M ^c   Stalinski, Renaud ^a   Riaz, Muhammad A ^a   Paris, Margot ^a   David, Jean Philippe ^a   Adang, Michael J ^b,d   Després, Laurence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis; Candidate genes; DIGE; Microarray; Midgut; Mosquito; Proteomics; Resistance; RT qPCR; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINOPEPTIDASE; BACTERIAL TOXIN; CRY TOXIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; V ATPASE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS ISRAELENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL IN GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PEST RESISTANCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; YELLOW FEVER;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINOPEPTIDASES; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CULICIDAE; LARVA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTOME; VACUOLAR PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; YELLOW FEVER;

AEDES AEGYPTI; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR ISRAELENSIS; DIPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84862166414     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-248     Document Type: Article

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