Distinct fitness costs associated with the knockdown of RNAi pathway genes in western corn rootworm adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2017, Pages

  Wu, Ke ^a   Camargo, Carolina ^a,d   Fishilevich, Elane ^b   Narva, Kenneth E ^b   Chen, Xiuping ^c   Taylor, Caitlin E ^a   Siegfried, Blair D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^d Max Planck Universidad   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 1 PROTEIN; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; DICER; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; AGO1 GENE; AGO3 GENE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARGONAUTE GENE; ARTICLE; AUBERGINE GENE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; DCR1 GENE; DCR2 GENE; DIABROTICA VIRGIFERA; DICER GENE; DOWN REGULATION; DROSHA GENE; EGG LAYING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; BEETLE; GENE KNOCKDOWN; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MAIZE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; COLEOPTERA; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 85038901537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190208     Document Type: Article

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