Male-Killing Spiroplasma Induces Sex-Specific Cell Death via Host Apoptotic Pathway

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Harumoto, Toshiyuki ^a   Anbutsu, Hisashi ^a   Fukatsu, Takema ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAPEDIA PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; ENGRAILED PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASE C; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT1 PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HOX GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MUTANT; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIROPLASMA;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIROPLASMA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84895768689     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003956     Document Type: Article

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