Identification of new insect Host Defense Peptides (HDP) from Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) transcriptomes
Germán Alberto Téllez Ramírez, Juan Felipe Osorio-Méndez, Diana Carolina Henao, Lily Johanna Toro, Juliana Franco Castrillón, Maribel Rojas-Montoya, Jhon Carlos Castaño Osório
The paper identifies 155 novel host defense peptides from nine transcriptomes of seven dung beetle species using transcriptomic data and sequence similarity analysis.
Journal of Insect Science · Jul 1, 2021Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology