Inducible defenses stay up late: Temporal patterns of immune gene expression in Tenebrio molitor

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 947-955

  Johnston, Paul R ^a   Makarova, Olga ^a   Rolff, Jens ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Costs of immunity; Insect immunity; Persistent infection; RNAseq time course

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; METABOLIC INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TENEBRIO MOLITOR; UPREGULATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84902499130     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.113.008516     Document Type: Article

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