Phyllotreta striolata flea beetles use host plant defense compounds to create their own glucosinolate-myrosinase system

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7349-7354

  Beran, Franziska ^a   Pauchet, Yannick ^a   Kunert, Grit ^b   Reichelt, Michael ^b   Wielsch, Natalie ^c   Vogel, Heiko ^a   Reinecke, Andreas ^d,i   Svatoš, Aleš ^c   Mewis, Inga ^e   Schmid, Daniela ^f   Ramasamy, Srinivasan ^g   Ulrichs, Christian ^h   Hansson, Bill S ^d   Gershenzon, Jonathan ^b   Heckel, David G ^a  

^a Departments of Entomology   (Germany)

^b Departments of Biochemistry   (Germany)

^c MPI Chemical Ecology   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF VEGETABLE AND ORNAMENTAL CROPS   (Germany)

^f Departments of Bioorganic Chemistry   (Germany)

^g AVRDC THE WORLD VEGETABLE CENTER   (Taiwan)

^h HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

ⁱ MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCOSIDASE; GLUCOSIDE; GLUCOSINOLATE; THIOGLUCOSIDASE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FLEA; FOOD CROP; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HOST RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLLOTRETA STRIOLATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEOMICS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; HOST PLANT SPECIALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ARABIDOPSIS; BEETLES; CELLULASES; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLUCOSINOLATES; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HERBIVORY; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; HYDROLYSIS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84901036364     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321781111     Document Type: Article

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