The fatty acid elongase Bond is essential for Drosophila sex pheromone synthesis and male fertility

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ng, Wan Chin ^a   Chin, Jacqueline S R ^a,b   Tan, Kah Junn ^a   Yew, Joanne Y ^a,b,c  

^a TEMASEK LIFE SCIENCES LABORATORY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID ELONGASE; PROTEIN BOND; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; SEX PHEROMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACYLTRANSFERASE; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FATTY ACID ELONGASES; JAMESBOND PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MESSENGER RNA;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL CUE; CONSPECIFIC; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FATTY ACID; FERTILITY; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX PHEROMONE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MANIPULATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MATE CHOICE; MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

HEXAPODA;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA SIMULANS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84941670541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9263     Document Type: Article

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