Cecropins from Plutella xylostella and Their Interaction with Metarhizium anisopliae.

Cecropins are the most potent induced peptides to resist invading microorganisms. In the present study, two full length cDNA encoding cecropin2 (Px-cec2) and cecropin3 (Px-cec3) were obtained from P. xylostella by integrated analysis of genome and transcriptome data. qRT-PCR analysis revealed the hi...

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Main Authors: Lina Ouyang, Xiaoxia Xu, Shoaib Freed, Yanfu Gao, Jing Yu, Shuang Wang, Wenyan Ju, Yuqing Zhang, Fengliang Jin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4636316?pdf=render