A hydrophobic peptide (VAP-peptide) of the silkworm, Bombyx mori: A unique role for adult activity proposed from gene expression and production at the terminal phase of metamorphosis

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 671-676

  Shiomi, Kunihiro ^a   Niimi, Teruyuki ^a   Sato, Yukihiro ^a   Imai, Kunio ^b   Yamashita, Okitsugu ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Cuticle; Gene expression; VAP peptide; Wing

Indexed keywords

INSECT HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VAP PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAD; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; ORGANOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SILKWORM; THORAX;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAD; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT HORMONES; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORAX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX MORI; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032169735     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(98)00047-2     Document Type: Article

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