Juvenile hormone controls early trypsin gene transcription in the midgut of Aedes aegypti

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-66

  Noriega, Fernando G ^a   Shah, D K ^a   Wells, M A ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

juvenile hormone; mosquito; trypsin

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031081053     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.1997.00154.x     Document Type: Article

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