Two different cDNAs code for L-DOPA decarboxylase in the white prepuparium and eclosion developmental stages of the insect Ceratitis capitata

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1443, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 267-273

  Mantzouridis, Timoleon D ^a   Fragoulis, Emmanuel G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

(Ceratitis capitata); DOPA decarboxylase cDNA; Stage specific gene expression

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOENZYME; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIPTERA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOPA DECARBOXYLASE; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CAPITATA; CERATITIS CAPITATA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032569975     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(98)00220-6     Document Type: Article

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