Identification of three allatostatins and their cDNA from the mosquito Aedes aegypti

Peptides

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 937-942

  Veenstra, Jan A ^a,b,d   Noriega, Fernando G ^a,b   Graf, Rolf ^c   Feyereisen, René ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Allatostatin; Convertase; Midgut; Nervous system; Trypsin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NEUROPEPTIDE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AEDES AEGYPTI;

EID: 0030703657     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(97)00032-6     Document Type: Article

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