Characterization of a cDNA and gene encoding a cuticular protein from rigid cuticles of the giant silkmoth, Hyalophora cecropia

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1994, Pages 419-435

  Lampe, David J ^a   Willis, Judith H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cuticle; Cuticle protein gene; Ecdysteroid; Juvenoid; Metamorphosis; Octamer

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; HCCP66 PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FORELIMB; GENE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; INSECT; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, INSECT; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; PUPA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SILKWORMS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; WING;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX MORI; CECROPIA; HYALOPHORA CECROPIA; INSECTA;

EID: 0028406307     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0965-1748(94)90035-3     Document Type: Article

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