Transcriptome analysis and systemic RNAi response in the African sweetpotato weevil (Cylas puncticollis, Coleoptera, Brentidae)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Prentice, Katterinne ^a,b   Pertry, Ine ^a,c   Christiaens, Olivier ^a   Bauters, Lander ^a   Bailey, Ana ^d   Niblett, Chuck ^d   Ghislain, Marc ^b   Gheysen, Godelieve ^a   Smagghe, Guy ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Kenya)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d Venganza Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; INSECT PROTEIN;

AFRICAN SWEETPOTATO WEEVIL; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; LACCASE2 GENE; NONHUMAN; RNA INTERFERENCE; WEEVIL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL SHELL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; INSECT CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SWEET POTATO;

BRENTIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CYLAS PUNCTICOLLIS; HEXAPODA; IPOMOEA BATATAS;

ANIMAL SHELLS; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT PROTEINS; IPOMOEA BATATAS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; WEEVILS;

EID: 84921047982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115336     Document Type: Article

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