Biochemical and ultrastructural alterations in prothoracic glands of Heliothis virescens (F.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) last instar larvae parasitized by Cardiochiles nigriceps viereck (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 439-450

  Pennacchio, Francesco ^a   Sordetti, Rocco ^a   Falabella, Patrizia ^a   Vinson, S Bradleigh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecdysteroids; Hormonal interactions; Polydnavirus; Protein synthesis; Prothoracicotropic hormone; Steroidogenesis; Tobacco budworm

Indexed keywords

BUCLADESINE; ECDYSTEROID; FORSKOLIN; PROTHORACICOTROPIC HORMONE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; TRYPAN BLUE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE GLAND; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0030982078     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(97)00016-7     Document Type: Article

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