Newly discovered features of the updated sequence of royal jelly protein RJP571; longer repetitive region on C-terminus and homology to Drosophila melanogaster yellow protein

Journal of Apicultural Research

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 63-68

  Albert, Štefan ^a   Klaudiny, Jaroslav ^a   Šimuth, Jozef ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Apis mellifera; Complementary DNA; Drosophila melanogaster; Honey bees; Nucleotide sequence; Proteins; Repetitive region; Royal jelly; Yellow protein

Indexed keywords

APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030366727     PISSN: 00218839     EISSN: 20786913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00218839.1996.11100914     Document Type: Article

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