Olive fly transcriptomics analysis implicates energy metabolism genes in spinosad resistance

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sagri, Efthimia ^a   Reczko, Martin ^b   Gregoriou, Maria Eleni ^a   Tsoumani, Konstantina T ^a   Zygouridis, Nikolaos E ^a   Salpea, Klelia D ^b   Zalom, Frank G ^c   Ragoussis, Jiannis ^b,d   Mathiopoulos, Kostas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expression analysis; Insecticide tolerance; Next generation sequencing; Spinosyns

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; SPINOSAD; TRANSCRIPTOME; CYTOCHROME P450; DRUG COMBINATION; INSECTICIDE; MACROLIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; ATP SYNTHASE FO SUBUNIT 6 GENE; BACTROCERA OLEAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPTERA; ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HEXL1 GENE; HSP23 GENE; HSP70 GENE; INSECT GENETICS; INSECTICIDE RESISTANCE; LOW AFFINITY CATIONIC AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2 GENE; LSP1 GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SP6 GENE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; YP2 GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG DETOXIFICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; IMMUNITY; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TEPHRITIDAE;

BACTROCERA OLEAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; IMMUNITY; INSECTICIDES; MACROLIDES; MALE; METABOLIC DETOXICATION, PHASE I; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TEPHRITIDAE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84907288062     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-714     Document Type: Article

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