The Molecular Clockwork of the Fire Ant Solenopsis invicta

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Ingram, Krista K ^a   Kutowoi, Alexander ^b   Wurm, Yannick ^c,d   Shoemaker, DeWayne ^e   Meier, Rudolf ^f   Bloch, Guy ^b  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLOCK GENE; CLOCKWORK ORANGE GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCHROME M GENE; CYCLE GENE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; HONEYBEE; HYMENOPTERA; MOLECULAR CLOCK; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PAR DOMAIN PROTEIN 1 GENE; PERIOD GENE; PHYLOGENY; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; TIMEOUT GENE; VRILLE GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CRYPTOCHROMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; MAMMALIA; NASONIA; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84869021487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045715     Document Type: Article

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