Differential impacts of juvenile hormone, soldier head extract and alternate caste phenotypes on host and symbiont transcriptome composition in the gut of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sen, Ruchira ^a   Raychoudhury, Rhitoban ^a   Cai, Yunpeng ^b,c   Sun, Yijun ^b,d   Lietze, Verena Ulrike ^b   Boucias, Drion G ^b   Scharf, Michael E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Caste differentiation; Live reproductive; Live soldier; Metagenomics; Microarray; Soldier head extract

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; JUVENILE HORMONE; NATURAL PRODUCT; SOLDIER HEAD EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOSYMBIONT; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEAD; INSECT CASTE; INTESTINE; ISOPTERA; METAGENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROTOZOON; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOLDIER (INSECT); TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; WORKER (INSECT);

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; HEAD; INSECT PROTEINS; INTESTINES; ISOPTERA; JUVENILE HORMONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SOCIAL CLASS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; PROTOZOA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RHINOTERMITIDAE;

EID: 84880335834     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-491     Document Type: Article

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