Biochemical Diversification through Foreign Gene Expression in Bdelloid Rotifers

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Boschetti, Chiara ^a   Carr, Adrian ^a,b   Crisp, Alastair ^a   Eyres, Isobel ^c   Wang Koh, Yuan ^a   Lubzens, Esther ^a,d   Barraclough, Timothy G ^c   Micklem, Gos ^a,b   Tunnacliffe, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADINETA RICCIAE; ARTICLE; BRACHIONUS PLICATILIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FOREIGN GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; ROTIFERA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOXIN DEGRADATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; DESICCATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; PHYLOGENY; RADIATION, IONIZING; ROTIFERA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADINETA RICCIAE; ALGAE; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BDELLOIDA; FUNGI; INVERTEBRATA; METAZOA; PROTISTA; ROTIFERA;

EID: 84870723336     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003035     Document Type: Article

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