Cloning and characterization of CcEcR. An ecdysone receptor homolog from the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 265, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 798-808

  Verras, Meletis ^b   Mavroidis, Manolis ^b   Kokolakis, Giorgos ^b   Gourzi, Polyxeni ^b   Zacharopoulou, Antigone ^b   Mintzas, Anastassios C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ceratitis capitata; Ecdysone; Ecdysone receptor; Medfly; Nuclear receptor

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ECDYSONE; ECDYSTERONE; HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MAPPING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIPTERA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; ECDYSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CAPITATA; CERATITIS; CERATITIS CAPITATA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LUCILIA CUPRINA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0005353975     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00788.x     Document Type: Article

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