20-Hydroxyecdysone, but not juvenile hormone, regulation of yolk protein gene expression can be mapped to cis-acting DNA sequences

Developmental Biology

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 475-489

  Bownes, Mary ^a   Ronaldson, Elaine ^a   Mauchline, Debbie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTERONE; JUVENILE HORMONE; METHOPRENE; YOLK PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030042374     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1996.0041     Document Type: Article

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