Enzymatic and ultrastructural changes in thoracic muscles of triatomine insects during the last stages of metamorphosis

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Physiology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 173-179

  Scaraffia, Patricia Y ^a   Remedi, María S ^a   Maldonado, Cristina ^a   Aoki, Agustín ^a   De Burgos, Nelia M Gerez ^a  

^a FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dipetalogaster maximus; enzymes; flight muscles; insect muscles; metamorphosis; muscle metabolism; muscle ultrastructure; Triatoma infestans

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INSECT; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0031081246     PISSN: 03009629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9629(96)00207-1     Document Type: Article

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