Cloning of cDNA for vitellogenin of the parasitoid wasp, Pimpla nipponica (Hymenoptera: Apocrita: Ichneumonidae): Vitellogenin primary structure and evolutionary considerations

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1047-1056

  Nose, Yoshiaki ^a   Min Lee, Jae ^a   Ueno, Takatoshi ^b   Hatakeyama, Masatsugu ^a   Oishi, Kugao ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hymenoptera; Molecular phylogeny; Pimpla nipponica; Vitellogenin cDNA

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; VITELLOGENIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FLY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; HYMENOPTERA; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; WASP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; HYMENOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; VITELLOGENINS; WASPS;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMALIA; APOCRITA; ARACHNIDA; ATHALIA ROSAE; BRASSICA RAPA SUBSP. RAPA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONIDAE; INSECTA; PIMPLA NIPPONICA; SYMPHYTA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0031427848     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(97)00091-X     Document Type: Article

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