1. Insect omics research coming of age.
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Boerjan, Bart, Cardoen, Dries, Verdonck, Rik, Caers, Jelle, and Schoofs, Liliane
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GENOMES , *BIOINFORMATICS , *BEHAVIOR genetics , *GENOMICS , *GENES , *RNA , *NUCLEIC acids , *INSECTS - Abstract
As more and more insect genomes are fully sequenced and annotated, omics technologies, including transcriptomic, proteomic, peptidomics, and metobolomic profiling, as well as bioinformatics, can be used to exploit this huge amount of sequence information for the study of different biological aspects of insect model organisms. Omics experiments are an elegant way to deliver candidate genes, the function of which can be further explored by genetic tools for functional inactivation or overexpression of the genes of interest. Such tools include mainly RNA interference and are currently being developed in diverse insect species. In this manuscript, we have reviewed how omics technologies were integrated and applied in insect biology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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