Bombyx and Manduca prothoracicotropic hormones: An immunologic test for relatedness

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 247-254

  Rybczynski, Robert ^b   Mizoguchi, Akira ^a   Gilbert, Lawrence I ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE; PROTHORACICOTROPIC HORMONE; RETINOID BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RECEPTOR BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM;

EID: 0029892028     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1996.0066     Document Type: Article

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