Construction of an insecticidal baculovirus expressing insect-specific neurotoxin AaIT

Science in China, Series C: Life Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 199-206

  Yao, Bin ^a   Pang, Yi ^a,b   Fan, Yunliu ^a   Zhao, Rongmin ^a   Yang, Yingchang ^a   Wang, Tianyuan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Design and modification of gene; Insect specific neurotoxin AaIT; Recombinant baculovirus

Indexed keywords

NEUROTOXIN; RECOMBINANT DNA; SCORPION VENOM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; INSECT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; BACULOVIRIDAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, RECOMBINANT; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; NEUROTOXINS; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SCORPION VENOMS;

EID: 0030119725     PISSN: 10069305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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