Alternative splicing and highly variable cadherin transcripts associated with field-evolved resistance of pink bollworm to Bt cotton in India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Fabrick, Jeffrey A ^a   Ponnuraj, Jeyakumar ^b   Singh, Amar ^c   Tanwar, Raj K ^c   Unnithan, Gopalan C ^d   Yelich, Alex J ^d   Li, Xianchun ^d   Carrier̀e, Yves ^d   Tabashnik, Bruce E ^d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b National Institute of Plant Health Management   (India)

^c ICAR National Research Centre for Integrated Pest Management   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CRY1AC TOXIN; MESSENGER RNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTTON; DNA SEQUENCE; INDIA; INSECT RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PECTINOPHORA GOSSYPIELLA; PEST INSECT; STOP CODON; TRANSGENIC PLANT; ALLELE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GOSSYPIUM; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY;

ALLELES; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CADHERINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENDOTOXINS; GOSSYPIUM; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; INDIA; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84901362656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097900     Document Type: Article

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