Comparative analysis of transcriptomes from secondary reproductives of three reticulitermes termite species

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Dedeine, Franck ^a   Weinert, Lucy A ^b   Bigot, Diane ^a   Josse, Thibaut ^a   Ballenghien, Marion ^b   Cahais, Vincent ^b   Galtier, Nicolas ^b   Gayral, Philippe ^a  

^a Parc Grandmont   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULASE; TRANSCRIPTOME; INSECT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTIG MAPPING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MAPPING; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; RETICULITERMES; RETICULITERMES FLAVIPES; RETICULITERMES GRASSEI; RETICULITERMES LUCIFUGUS; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOPTERA; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; INSECT PROTEINS; ISOPTERA; REPRODUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84956899734     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145596     Document Type: Article

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