Transcriptional Regulation of Culex pipiens Mosquitoes by Wolbachia Influences Cytoplasmic Incompatibility

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Pinto, Sofia B ^a,b,d   Stainton, Kirsty ^a,b,d   Harris, Simon ^c   Kambris, Zakaria ^a,b,e   Sutton, Elizabeth R ^a,b   Bonsall, Michael B ^b   Parkhill, Julian ^c   Sinkins, Steven P ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX PIPIENS; DNA EXTRACTION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REARING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA ISOLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; UPREGULATION; WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS;

ANIMALS; CULEX; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MEIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UP-REGULATION; WOLBACHIA; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84887274025     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003647     Document Type: Article

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