Comparative genomic analysis of the Triboliumimmune system (2007)
Zou, Zhen, Evans, Jay D, Lu, Zhiqiang, Zhao, Picheng, Williams, Michael, Sumathipala, Niranji, ...
Abstract Background Tribolium castaneum is a species of Coleoptera, the largest and most diverse order of all eukaryotes. Components of the innate immune system are hardly known in this insect, which...
Comparative genomic analysis of the Tribolium immune system
Zou, Zhen, Evans, Jay D, Lu, Zhiqiang, Zhao, Picheng, Williams, Michael, Sumathipala, Niranji, ...
The annotation, and comparison with homologous genes in other species, of immunity-related genes in the Tribolium castaneum genome allowed the identification of around 300 candidate defense proteins,...