Gene expression changes governing extreme dehydration tolerance in an Antarctic insect

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 50, 2012, Pages 20744-20749

  Teets, Nicholas M ^a   Peyton, Justin T ^a   Colinet, Herve ^b,c   Renault, David ^b   Kelley, Joanna L ^d   Kawarasaki, Yuta ^e   Lee, Richard E ^e   Denlinger, David L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental stress; Physiological ecology

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CYTOCHROME C; PROTEASOME; UBIQUITIN; PRIMER DNA;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; BELGICA ANTARCTICA; BODY WATER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT; MEGAPHORURA ARCTICA; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; WATER LOSS; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; CHIRONOMIDAE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLOME; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARTHROPODS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIRONOMIDAE; DEHYDRATION; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, INSECT; METABOLOME; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874402982     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1218661109     Document Type: Article

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