Insights into hepatopancreatic functions for nutrition metabolism and ovarian development in the crab Portunus trituberculatus: Gene discovery in the comparative transcriptome of different hepatopancreas stages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Wei ^a   Wu, Xugan ^a   Liu, Zhijun ^a   Zheng, Huajun ^b   Cheng, Yongxu ^a  

^a SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LIPID; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIGESTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEPATOPANCREAS; LIPID METABOLISM; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PORTUNUS TRITUBERCULATUS; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIGESTION; FEMALE; FISH PROTEINS; FOOD; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HEPATOPANCREAS; IMMUNITY; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OVARY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84897997633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084921     Document Type: Article

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