Cloning and characterization of an ecdysone receptor cDNA from locusta migratoria

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 143, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 91-99

  Saleh, David S ^a   Zhang, Jianzhong ^a   Wyatt, Gerard R ^a   Walker, Virginia K ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cDNA cloning; Developmental expression; Ecdysone receptor; Locust; Methoprene

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ECDYSONE; ECDYSTEROID; HORMONE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LARVA; LOCUST; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ECDYSONE; GRASSHOPPERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032566302     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(98)00131-2     Document Type: Article

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