The ultraspiracle gene of the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana: Cloning of cDNA and developmental expression of mRNA

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 169-179

  Perera, Srini C ^a,b   Palli, Subba R ^a   Ladd, Tim R ^a   Krell, Peter J ^b   Retnakaran, Arthur ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

20 hydroxyecdysone; DNA binding; Receptor; RXR

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE ISOLATION; LEPIDOPTERA; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECDYSONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0031945657     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1998)22:2<169::AID-DVG6>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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