The P25 component of Galleria silk

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 257, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 264-270

  Zurovec M ^a   Kodrik D ^a   Yang, C ^a   Sehnal, F ^a   Scheller, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA sequence; Evolution; Fibroin; Glycosylation; Silkworm

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FIBROIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LARVA; MOLTING; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILK; SILKWORM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; GALLERIA; GALLERIA MELLONELLA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0031933184     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050647     Document Type: Article

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