Molecular traces of alternative social organization in a termite genome

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Terrapon, Nicolas ^a,v   Li, Cai ^b,c   Robertson, Hugh M ^d   Ji, Lu ^b   Meng, Xuehong ^b   Booth, Warren ^e,w   Chen, Zhensheng ^b   Childers, Christopher P ^f   Glastad, Karl M ^g   Gokhale, Kaustubh ^h   Gowin, Johannes ^i,x   Gronenberg, Wulfila ^j   Hermansen, Russell A ^k   Hu, Haofu ^b   Hunt, Brendan G ^g,y   Huylmans, Ann Kathrin ^a,z   Khalil, Sayed M S ^e,l   Mitchell, Robert D ^e   Munoz Torres, Monica C ^m   Mustard, Julie A ^h   Pan, Hailin ^b   Reese, Justin T ^f   Scharf, Michael E ⁿ   Sun, Fengming ^b   Vogel, Heiko ^o   Xiao, Jin ^b   Yang, Wei ^b   Yang, Zhikai ^b   Yang, Zuoquan ^b   Zhou, Jiajian ^b   Zhu, Jiwei ^e   Brent, Colin S ^p   Elsik, Christine G ^f   Goodisman, Michael A D ^g   Liberles, David A ^k   Roe, R Michael ^e   Vargo, Edward L ^e   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^q   Wang, Jun ^b,r,s,t,u   Bornberg Bauer, Erich ^a   Korb, Judith ⁱ   Zhang, Guojie ^b,r   Liebig, Jürgen ^h   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^g GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^l Agricultural Genetic Engineering Research Institute   (Egypt)

^m LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁿ PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^p US Arid Land Agricultural Research Station   (United States)

^q JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^r UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^s KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^t MACAU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Macao)

^u UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^v AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^w UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^y UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; INSECT PROTEIN;

FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; INSECT; MATING BEHAVIOR; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT; INSECT GENOME; ISOPTERA; LIFESTYLE; MALE FERTILITY; MATING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ZOOTERMOPSIS NEVADENSIS; ANIMAL; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GENOME; MALE; METABOLISM; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; INSECT PROTEINS; ISOPTERA; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84901236470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4636     Document Type: Article

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