A gene horizontally transferred from bacteria protects arthropods from host plant cyanide poisoning

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Wybouw, Nicky ^a   Dermauw, Wannes ^a   Tirry, Luc ^a   Stevens, Christian ^a   Grbic, Miodrag ^b,c   Feyereisen, René ^d   Van Leeuwen, Thomas ^a,e  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c Ctra Burgos Km 6   (Spain)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA CYANOALANINE SYNTHETASE; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; HYDROXYNITRILE LYASE; SULFUR AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 3-CYANOALANINE; ALANINE; BETA-CYANOALANINE SYNTHASE; GLYCOSIDE; LYASE;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CYANIDE POISONING; CYANOGENESIS; DETOXIFICATION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LEPIDOPTERA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANONYCHUS CITRI; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PEST; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA SEQUENCE; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS EVANSI; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; VOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ALANINE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BACTERIA; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GLYCOSIDES; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; LYASES; PHYLOGENY; TETRANYCHIDAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899644845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02365     Document Type: Article

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