De novo transcriptome assembly from fat body and flight muscles transcripts to identify morph-specific gene expression profiles in Gryllus firmus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Vellichirammal, Neetha Nanoth ^a   Zera, Anthony J ^a   Schilder, Rudolf J ^c   Wehrkamp, Cody ^a   Riethoven, Jean Jack M ^a,b   Brisson, Jennifer A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREATHING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FAT BODY; FEMALE; FLIGHT; FLIGHT MUSCLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRYLLUS; GRYLLUS FIRMUS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIPID TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; FAT BODY; FATTY ACIDS; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GRYLLIDAE; LIPIDS; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MUSCLES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; WING;

EID: 84897412271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082129     Document Type: Article

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