Molecular characterization of a cDNA from Pseudaletia unipuncta encoding the Manduca sexta allatostatin peptide (Mas-AST)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 8-9, 1996, Pages 767-773

  Jansons, Ingrid S ^a   Cusson, Michel ^b   McNeil, Jeremy N ^c   Tobe, Stephen S ^d   Bendena, William G ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Juvenile hormone; Lepidoptera; Neurobiology; Proteolytic processing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; JUVENILE HORMONE; MANDUCA SEXTA ALLATOSTATIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COCKROACH; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; HAPLOID CELL; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; METABOLISM; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTH; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEXUAL MATURATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT PROTEINS; JUVENILE HORMONES; MALE; MANDUCA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; BLATTARIA; HELICOVERPA ZEA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA; MANDUCA SEXTA; MYTHIMNA; MYTHIMNA UNIPUNCTA; ZEA;

EID: 0030239985     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(96)00023-9     Document Type: Article

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