Two genes encoding midgut-specific maltase-like polypeptides from anopheles gambiae

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 272-283

  Zheng, Liangbiao ^a,b   Whang, Lucy H S ^a   Kumar, Vasantha ^a   Kafatos, Fotis C ^a,b  

^a HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLUCOSIDASE; POLYPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GLYCOSYLATION; MALARIA; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALPHA-GLUCOSIDASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, INSECT; INSECT VECTORS; MALARIA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029610221     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/expr.1995.1118     Document Type: Article

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