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“Screening potential SSR markers of the anadromous fish Coilia nasus by de novo transcriptome analysis using Illumina sequencing”, vol. 14, pp. 14181-14188, 2015.
, , “An elevated plasma level of visfatin increases the risk of myocardial infarction”, vol. 13, pp. 8586-8595, 2014.
, “Protein-protein interaction network analysis of osteoarthritis-related differentially expressed genes”, vol. 13, pp. 9343-9351, 2014.
, “Differences in numbers of termicins expressed in two termite species affected by fungal contamination of their environments”, vol. 11, pp. 2247-2257, 2012.
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Chouvenc T, Su NY and Elliott MI (2008). Antifungal activity of the termite alkaloid norharmane against the mycelial growth of Metarhizium anisopliae and Aspergillus nomius. J. Invertebr. Pathol. 99: 345-347.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jip.2008.07.003
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Kartal M, Yildiz S, Kaya S, Kurucu S, et al. (2003). Antimicrobial activity of propolis samples from two different regions of Anatolia. J. Ethnopharmacol. 86: 69-73.
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Klaudiny J, Albert S, Bachanova K, Kopernicky J, et al. (2005). Two structurally different defensin genes, one of them encoding a novel defensin isoform, are expressed in honeybee Apis mellifera. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 35: 11-22.
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Li J, Xu X, Xu C, Zhou W, et al. (2007). Anti-infection peptidomics of amphibian skin. Mol. Cell Proteomics 6: 882-894.
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Rosengaus RB, Maxmen AB, Coates LE and Traniello JFA (1998). Disease resistance: a benefit of sociality in the dampwood termite Zootermopsis angusticollis (Isoptera: Termopsidae). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 44: 125-134.
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Rosengaus RB, Lefebvre ML and Traniello JFA (2000). Inhibition of fungal spore germination by Nasutitermes: evidence for a possible antiseptic role of soldier defensive secretions. J. Chem. Ecol. 26: 21-39.
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Sawaya AC, Palma AM, Caetano FM, Marcucci MC, et al. (2002). Comparative study of in vitro methods used to analyse the activity of propolis extracts with different compositions against species of Candida. Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 35: 203-207.
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Sforcin JM, Fernandes Jr A, Lopes CA, Bankova V, et al. (2000). Seasonal effect on Brazilian propolis antibacterial activity. J. Ethnopharmacol. 73: 243-249.
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Siderhurst MS, James DM, Blunt TD and Bjostad LB (2005a). Antimicrobial activity of norharmane against the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch) and the caste and phylogenetic distribution of this defense in termites (Insecta: Isoptera). Sociobiology 46: 563-577.
Siderhurst MS, James DM, Blunt TD and Bjostad LB (2005b). Endosymbiont biosynthesis of norharmane in Reticulitermes termites (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). Sociobiology 45: 687-705.
Silici S and Kutluca S (2005). Chemical composition and antibacterial activity of propolis collected by three different races of honeybees in the same region. J. Ethnopharmacol. 99: 69-73.
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Souza RM, de Souza MC, Patitucci ML and Silva JF (2007). Evaluation of antioxidant and antimicrobial activities and characterization of bioactive components of two Brazilian propolis samples using a pKa-guided fractionation. Z. Naturforsch. C 62: 801-807.
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Tamura K, Dudley J, Nei M and Kumar S (2007). MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0. Mol. Biol. Evol. 24: 1596-1599.
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Xu P, Shi M and Chen XX (2009a). Positive selection on termicins in one termite species, Macrotermes barneyi (Isoptera: Termitidae). Sociobiology 53: 739-753.
Xu P, Shi M and Chen XX (2009b). Antimicrobial peptide evolution in the Asiatic honey bee Apis cerana. PLoS One 4: e4239.
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Zhou XX, Wang YB, Pan YJ and Li WF (2008). Nisin-controlled extracellular production of apidaecin in Lactococcus lactis. Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 78: 947-953.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00253-008-1380-y
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“Molecular cloning and single nucleotide polymorphism analysis of IGF2a genes in the common carp (Cyprinus carpio)”, vol. 11, pp. 1327-1340, 2012.
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Braunschweig MH, Van Laere AS, Buys N, Andersson L, et al. (2004). IGF2 antisense transcript expression in porcine postnatal muscle is affected by a quantitative trait nucleotide in intron 3. Genomics 84: 1021-1029.
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Burgos C, Carrodeguas JA, Moreno C, Altarriba J, et al. (2006). Allelic incidence in several pig breeds of a missense variant of pig melanocortin-4 receptor (MC4R) gene associated with carcass and productive traits; its relation to IGF2 genotype. Meat Sci. 73: 144-150.
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Caelers A, Schmid AC, Hrusovsky A and Reinecke M (2003). Insulin-like growth factor II mRNA is expressed in neurones of the brain of the bony fish Oreochromis mossambicus, the tilapia. Eur. J. Neurosci. 18: 355-363.
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Carrodeguas JA, Burgos C, Moreno C, Sánchez AC, et al. (2005). Incidence in diverse pig populations of an IGF2 mutation with potential influence on meat quality and quantity: An assay based on real time PCR (RT-PCR). Meat Sci. 71: 577-582.
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Chauvigne F, Gabillard JC, Weil C and Rescan PY (2003). Effect of refeeding on IGFI, IGFII, IGF receptors, FGF2, FGF6, and myostatin mRNA expression in rainbow trout myotomal muscle. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 132: 209-215.
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Stinckens A, Mathur P, Janssens S, Bruggeman V, et al. (2010). Indirect effect of IGF2 intron3 g.3072G>A mutation on prolificacy in sows. Anim. Genet. 41: 493-498.
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