Odoriferous Defensive Stink Gland Transcriptome to Identify Novel Genes Necessary for Quinone Synthesis in the Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Li, Jianwei ^a   Lehmann, Sabrina ^a   Weißbecker, Bernhard ^a   Ojeda Naharros, Irene ^a   Schütz, Stefan ^a   Joop, Gerrit ^b   Wimmer, Ernst A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXOCRINE GLAND; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ODORIFEROUS DEFENSIVE STINK GLAND; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SYNTHESIS; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BENZOQUINONES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; INSECT PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCENT GLANDS;

EID: 84880808728     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003596     Document Type: Article

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