Transcriptome Analysis and Screening for Potential Target Genes for RNAi-Mediated Pest Control of the Beet Armyworm, Spodoptera exigua

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Li, Hang ^a   Jiang, Weihua ^a   Zhang, Zan ^a   Xing, Yanru ^a   Li, Fei ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION FACTOR 1; ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLATION FACTOR 2; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HELICASE; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARF1 GENE; ARF2 GENE; ARTICLE; ATPASE GENE; CHITINASE1 GENE; CHITINASE7 GENE; CONTIG MAPPING; DSRNA GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC PEST CONTROL; GENETIC RESOURCE; GENETIC SCREENING; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL STAGE; MALE; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PGCP GENE; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIRNA GENE; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; TUBULIN1 GENE; TUBULIN2 GENE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; GENETICS; SPODOPTERA;

HEXAPODA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPODOPTERA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84879183212     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065931     Document Type: Article

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