Towards decrypting cryptobiosis - Analyzing anhydrobiosis in the tardigrade Milnesium tardigradum using transcriptome sequencing

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Chong ^a   Grohme, Markus A ^a   Mali, Brahim ^a   Schil, Ralph O ^b   Frohme, Marcus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WILDAU   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 30C; POLYUBIQUITIN; POLYUBIQUITIN B; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANHYDROBIOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; METABOLISM; MILNESIUM TARDIGRADUM; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REHYDRATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TARDIGRADA; UPREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DEHYDRATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEOLYSIS; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; TARDIGRADA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84899797496     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092663     Document Type: Article

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