Partial identification of a new pheromonotropic peptide from Mamestra brassicae

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 839, Issue , 1998, Pages 488-490

  Fónagy, Adrien ^a   Teal, Peter ^b   Meredith, Julia ^b   Körmendy, Cecilia ^a   Tumlinson, James ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; PHEROMONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MOTH; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMESTRA BRASSICAE;

EID: 0032524873     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10844.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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