Frontalin pheromone biosynthesis in the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae, and the role of isoprenyl diphosphate synthases

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 47, 2013, Pages 18838-18843

  Keeling, Christopher I ^a   Chiu, Christine C ^a   Aw, Tidiane ^a   Li, Maria ^a   Henderson, Hannah ^a   Tittiger, Claus ^a   Weng, Hong Biao ^a   Blomquist, Gary J ^a   Bohlmann, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

10 CARBON GERANYL DIPHOSPHATE; 15 CARBON FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; 20 CARBON GERANYLGERANYL DIPHOSPHATE; CYTOCHROME P450; FARNESYL DIPHOSPHATE; FRONTALIN; GERANYLGERANYL PYROPHOSPHATE; ISOPRENYL DIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; PYROPHOSPHORIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; FEMALE; GENE STRUCTURE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE;

BARK BEETLE; MIDGUT; SEMIOCHEMISTRY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FARNESYLTRANSTRANSFERASE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHEROMONES; POLYISOPRENYL PHOSPHATES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84888096986     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1316498110     Document Type: Article

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