Analysis of Whitefly Transcriptional Responses to Beauveria bassiana Infection Reveals New Insights into Insect-Fungus Interactions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Xia, Jun ^a,c   Zhang, Chang Rong ^a   Zhang, Shan ^a   Li, Fang Fang ^a   Feng, Ming Guang ^b   Wang, Xiao Wei ^a   Liu, Shu Sheng ^a  

^a BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBON METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG METABOLISM; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME REGULATION; FUNGAL CELL WALL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; ION TRANSPORT; MICROBIAL PEST CONTROL; MUSCARDINE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SWEET POTATO WHITEFLY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BEAUVERIA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL WALL; DNA DAMAGE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GOSSYPIUM; HEMIPTERA; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IONS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ALEYRODIDAE; BEMISIA TABACI; CORDYCEPS BASSIANA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84879802385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068185     Document Type: Article

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