Parallel Epigenomic and Transcriptomic Responses to Viral Infection in Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1-24

  Galbraith, David A ^a   Yang, Xingyu ^b   Niño, Elina Lastro ^a   Yi, Soojin ^b   Grozinger, Christina ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; RNA; INSECT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; BEE EXTRACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DETOXIFICATION; DICISTROVIRIDAE; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIGENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ONTOLOGY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; OVERLAPPING GENE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; BEE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PICORNAVIRIDAE; PICORNAVIRUS INFECTION; VIROLOGY;

ACUTE BEE PARALYSIS VIRUS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

ANIMALS; BEES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INSECT PROTEINS; PICORNAVIRIDAE; PICORNAVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84926460117     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004713     Document Type: Article

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