The nutritionally responsive transcriptome of the polyphenic beetle Onthophagus taurus and the importance of sexual dimorphism and body region

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1797, 2014, Pages

  Kijimoto, Teiya ^a   Snell Rood, Emilie C ^a,b   Pespeni, Melissa H ^a,c   Rocha, Guilherme ^a   Kafadar, Karen ^a   Moczek, Armin P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Condition; Developmental plasticity; Horned beetles; Nutritional variation; Polyphenism; Square combining table

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BODY CONDITION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

COLEOPTERA; ONTHOPHAGUS TAURUS;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADAPTATION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BEETLE; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; BEETLES; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84908701955     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2084     Document Type: Article

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