Profiling the metatranscriptome of the protistan community in Coptotermes formosanus with emphasis on the lignocellulolytic system

Genomics

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 246-255

  Xie, Lei ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Zhong, Yi ^a   Liu, Ning ^a   Long, Yanhua ^a   Wang, Shengyue ^b   Zhou, Xuguo ^c   Zhou, Zhihua ^a   Huang, Yongping ^a   Wang, Qian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coptotermes formosanu; Lignocellulase; Metatranscriptome; Protist

Indexed keywords

ENDO 1,4 BETA XYLANASE; GLYCOSIDASE; HEMICELLULOSE; LIGNOCELLULOSE; MESSENGER RNA; METATRANSCRIPTOME; STARCH; SUCROSE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; CYTOSKELETON; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; ISOPTERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTISTAN COMMUNITY; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUCROSE METABOLISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ENDO-1,4-BETA XYLANASES; EUKARYOTA; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; ISOPTERA; LIGNIN; METAGENOME; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

COPTOTERMES; COPTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; ISOPTERA; PROTISTA;

EID: 84862806771     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: 10898646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2012.01.009     Document Type: Article

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