Subtractive and differential hybridization molecular analyses of Ceratitis capitata XX/XY versus XX embryos to search for male-specific early transcribed genes

BMC Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Salvemini, Marco ^a   D'Amato, Rocco ^a   Petrella, Valeria ^a   Ippolito, Domenica ^a   Ventre, Giuseppe ^a,b   Zhang, Ying ^a   Saccone, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Laboratorio Analisi Cliniche La Salute   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 9; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; DIFFERENTIAL HYBRIDIZATION MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY; MIRROR ORIENTATION SELECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SUPPRESSION SUBTRACTIVE HYBRIDIZATION; TRANSGENICS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

CERATITIS; CERATITIS CAPITATA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; CERATITIS CAPITATA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, INSECT; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84929174053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-15-S2-S5     Document Type: Article

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