Phylogenetic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Chemosensory Receptors in a Pair of Divergent Ant Species Reveals Sex-Specific Signatures of Odor Coding

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Zhou, Xiaofan ^a   Slone, Jesse D ^a   Rokas, Antonis ^a   Berger, Shelley L ^b   Liebig, Jürgen ^c   Ray, Anandasankar ^d   Reinberg, Danny ^e   Zwiebel, Laurence J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANT; ARTICLE; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GUSTATORY RECEPTOR GENE; HARPEGNATHOS SALTATOR; INSECT GENETICS; IONOTROPIC GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR GENE; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ODORANT RECEPTOR GENE; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTOR GENE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; PHEROMONES; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, IONOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; FORMICIDAE; HARPEGNATHOS SALTATOR; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84866174382     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002930     Document Type: Article

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