Molecular signatures of nicotinoid-pathogen synergy in the termite gut

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Sen, Ruchira ^a,c   Raychoudhury, Rhitoban ^a,d   Cai, Yunpeng ^b,e   Sun, Yijun ^b,f   Lietze, Verena Ulrike ^b   Peterson, Brittany F ^a   Scharf, Michael E ^a   Boucias, Drion G ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c MCM DAV College for Women   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH MOHALI   (India)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ALLATOSTATIN; ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; AMYLASE; ARYLSULFATASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA LACTAMASE; CARBOHYDRATE BINDING PROTEIN; CATALASE; CATHEPSIN B; CHITINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYSTEINE SYNTHASE; EPOXIDE HYDROLASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; IMIDACLOPRID; INSULIN RECEPTOR; LACCASE; LEUCINE RICH REPEAT KINASE 2; LYSOZYME; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE PROTEIN 2; NEONICOTINOID; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE FF; PEPTIDOGLYCAN RECOGNITION PROTEIN; PEROXIDASE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFERRIN; BACTERIAL DNA; FUNGAL DNA; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; INSECTICIDE; NITRO DERIVATIVE; RNA 16S; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BIOASSAY; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CONTIG MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNITY; INTESTINE; ISOPTERA; METHARIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTIST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; SYMBIONT; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECTS; DYSBIOSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INTESTINE FLORA; MICROBIOLOGY; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; PROTISTA; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; DYSBIOSIS; FUNGI; GASTROINTESTINAL MICROBIOME; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; IMIDAZOLES; INSECTICIDES; ISOPTERA; NITRO COMPOUNDS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84927124603     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123391     Document Type: Article

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