Transcription profiling of immune genes during parasite infection in susceptible and resistant strains of the flour beetles (Tribolium castaneum)

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-67

  Zhong, Daibin ^a   Wang, Mei Hui ^a   Pai, Aditi ^b   Yan, Guiyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SPELMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hymenolepis diminuta; Immunostimulant; Parasite resistance; Transcriptional profiles; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTACIN2 GENE; CESTODIASIS; COLEOPTERICIN1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CSPH2 GENE; DEFENSIN1 GENE; DEFENSIN2 GENE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GNBP3 GENE; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; IMMUNOMODULATION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LYSOZYME2 GENE; LYSOZYME4 GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDOGLYCAN RECOGNITION PROTEIN SA GENE; PEPTIDOGLYCAN RECOGNITION PROTEIN SB GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPO1 GENE; PROTEIN SECRETION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESISTANT STRAIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERPIN29 GENE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SUSCEPTIBLE STRAIN; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; IMMUNITY; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 84875099303     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2013.01.014     Document Type: Article

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