Gender- and stressor-specific microRNA expression in Tribolium castaneum

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 860-863

  Freitak, Dalial ^a   Knorr, Eileen ^a   Vogel, Heiko ^b   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental stress; Epigenetic; Gender studies; Immunity; MicroRNA; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BEETLE; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT SHOCK; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; REAL TIME;

ARTHROPODA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; PSEUDOMONAS ENTOMOPHILA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 84866651176     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0273     Document Type: Article

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