Transcriptome and Peptidome Characterisation of the Main Neuropeptides and Peptidic Hormones of a Euphausiid: The Ice Krill, Euphausia crystallorophias

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Toullec, Jean Yves ^a,b   Corre, Erwan ^a   Bernay, Benoît ^e   Thorne, Michael A S ^f   Cascella, Kévin ^a,b   Ollivaux, Céline ^a,c,d   Henry, Joël ^e   Clark, Melody S ^f  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE ROSCOFF   (France)

^c STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE ROSCOFF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

^f BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLATOSTATIN; ALLATOSTATIN A; ALLATOSTATIN B; ALLATOSTATIN C; BURSICON ALPHA; BURSICON BETA; CORAZONIN; CRUSTACEAN CARDIOACTIVE PEPTIDE; CRUSTACEAN HYPERGLYCEMIC HORMONE; DIURETIC HORMONE; NEUROHORMONE; NEUROPARSIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE F; PIGMENT CONCENTRATING HORMONE; PIGMENT DISPERSING HORMONE; TACHYKININ; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMIDATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUPHAUSIA; EUPHAUSIA CRYSTALLOROPHIAS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; KRILL; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BIOMASS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUPHAUSIACEA; GENE LIBRARY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; OCEANS AND SEAS; PEPTIDE HORMONES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84882690341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071609     Document Type: Article

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