Characterization of Head Transcriptome and Analysis of Gene Expression Involved in Caste Differentiation and Aggression in Odontotermes formosanus (Shiraki)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Huang, Qiuying ^a   Sun, Pengdong ^a   Zhou, Xuguo ^b   Lei, Chaoliang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BETA GLYCOSIDASE GENE; BICAUDAL D GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEXAMERIN 2 GENE; INSECT; INSECT CASTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ODONTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEAT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONTIG MAPPING; DATABASES, GENETIC; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; HEAD; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; ISOPTERA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

FUNGI; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; ODONTOTERMES FORMOSANUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 84870478876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050383     Document Type: Article

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