Differential gene expression and alternative splicing in insect immune specificity

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Riddell, Carolyn E ^a   Lobaton Garces, Juan D ^b   Adams, Sally ^c   Barribeau, Seth M ^d,e   Twell, David ^b   Mallon, Eamonn B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genotype genotype; Peritrophic membrane; Social insects

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; DSCAM GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENOTYPE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TWITCHIN GENE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; INSECT; PARASITOLOGY; TIME;

APOIDEA; CRITHIDIA; CRITHIDIA BOMBI; HEXAPODA;

SERINE PROTEINASE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRITHIDIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; IMMUNITY; INSECTS; SERINE PROTEASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84924298655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-1031     Document Type: Article

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