Chitinases are a multi-gene family in aedes, Anopheles and Drosophila

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 233-239

  De La Vega, H ^a   Specht, C A ^a   Liu, Y ^a   Robbins, P W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes; Anopheles; Caenhorabditis; Chitinase; Drosophila; Entamoeba; PCR

Indexed keywords

CHITINASE; DNA FRAGMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES FREEBORNI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; CRUSTACEA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENTAMOEBA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MARSUPENAEUS JAPONICUS; MELANOGASTER; PENAEUS; PENAEUS JAPONICUS;

EID: 0032146495     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.1998.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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