Juvenile hormone metabolism in the ovary, gut, head and carcass after blood feeding in the southern house mosquito, Culex quinquefasciatus

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 229-237

  Lassiter, Mark T ^a   Apperson, Charles S ^a   Roe, R Michael ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1 naphthyl acetate esterase; Culex quinquefasciatus; juvenile hormone; juvenile hormone epoxide hydrolase; juvenile hormone esterase; methoprene; southern house mosquito

Indexed keywords

EPOXIDE HYDROLASE; ESTERASE; JUVENILE HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CARCASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEAD; HORMONE METABOLISM; INSECT; INTESTINE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029876665     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-0491(95)02018-7     Document Type: Article

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