Pheromone-binding proteins of scarab beetles

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 855, Issue , 1998, Pages 301-305

  Leal, Walter Soares ^a   Wojtasek, Hubert ^a   Miyazawa, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; PHEROMONE; SEX PHEROMONE;

BEETLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENANTIOMER; FEMALE; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

ANOMALA OSAKANA; ARACHNIDA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; JAPONICA; LEPIDOPTERA; POPILLIA JAPONICA; SCARABAEIDAE;

EID: 0032451922     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10586.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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