Scrutinizing the immune defence inventory of Camponotus floridanus applying total transcriptome sequencing

BMC Genomics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Gupta, Shishir K ^a   Kupper, Maria ^a   Ratzka, Carolin ^a   Feldhaar, Heike ^b   Vilcinskas, Andreas ^c   Gross, Roy ^a   Dandekar, Thomas ^a,d   Förster, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Camponotus floridanus; Carpenter ant; Immune system; Re annotation; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

ABAECIN; APIDAECIN; APISIMIN; CRUSTIN; DEFENSIN; GLYNAVICIN; HISNAVICIN; HYMENOPTAECIN; MELITTIN; NABAECIN; NAHELIXIN; NASONIN; NAVITRIPENICIN; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; PEPTIDOGLYCAN RECOGNITION PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TACHYSTATIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANT; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HYMENOPTERA; IMMUNITY; LARVA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; NONHUMAN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT GENOME;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPONOTUS; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, INSECT; IMMUNITY, INNATE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84937722525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-015-1748-1     Document Type: Article

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