Construction and Characterization of Normalized cDNA Libraries by 454 Pyrosequencing and Estimation of DNA Methylation Levels in Three Distantly Related Termite Species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Hayashi, Yoshinobu ^a,b   Shigenobu, Shuji ^c,d   Watanabe, Dai ^a,e   Toga, Kouhei ^e,f   Saiki, Ryota ^e   Shimada, Keisuke ^e,g   Bourguignon, Thomas ^a,h   Lo, Nathan ^b   Hojo, Masaru ⁱ   Maekawa, Kiyoto ^e   Miura, Toru ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g Ishikawa Museum of Natural History   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 2; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CPG ISLAND; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA METHYLATION; DNMT1 GENE; DNMT2 GENE; DNMT3 GENE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE; HODOTERMOPSIS SJOSTEDTI; INSECT CASTE; ISOPTERA; MBD GENE; NASUTITERMES TAKASAGOENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PYROSEQUENCING; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RNA EXTRACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA PRIMERS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; ISOPTERA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84884765003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076678     Document Type: Article

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