Cloning and characterization of LcEcR1: A functional ecdysone receptor from the sheep blowfly Lucilia cuprina

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 479-488

  Hannan, Garry N ^a   Hill, Ronald J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ecdysone; Ecdysone receptor; Ecdysone receptor cDNA; Ecdysone receptor gene; Ecdysteroid; Lucilia cuprina; Sheep blowfly; Steroid receptor

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ECDYSONE; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RNA PROBE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIPTERA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; ASTEROIDEA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSECTA; LUCILIA CUPRINA; LUCILIA SERICATA; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0031171854     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(97)00019-2     Document Type: Article

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