System Wide Analysis of the Evolution of Innate Immunity in the Nematode Model Species Caenorhabditis elegans and Pristionchus pacificus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Sinha, Amit ^a   Rae, Robbie ^a   Iatsenko, Igor ^a   Sommer, Ralf J ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DAF 16; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXO; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETOXIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEAT SHOCK; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INNATE IMMUNITY; LETHALITY; LIPID METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRISTIONCHUS PACIFICUS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSLATION INITIATION; UPREGULATION; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; IMMUNITY, INNATE; LIPID METABOLISM; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; NEMATODA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEGIBACTERIA; NEMATODA; PRISTIONCHUS PACIFICUS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; XENORHABDUS NEMATOPHILA;

EID: 84867006700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044255     Document Type: Article

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