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Structural, evolutionary and functional analysis of APN genes in the Lepidoptera Bombyx mori.
Gene - 10 Feb 2014
Lin Ping, Cheng Tingcai, Jin Shengkai, Jiang Liang, Wang Chen, Xia Qingyou
Abstract excerpt
Aminopeptidases N (APNs), the receptors of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin in the lepidopteran midgut, are involved in the Bt pathogen infection mechanism. In the present work, we screened 102 APNs from SilkDB, ButterflyBase and MonarchBase; 16 APNs were identified from the silkworm (Bombyx mori) and 24 from the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). Syntenic and phylogenetic tree analysis showed that APN genes...
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