Effect of octopamine on the activity of juvenile-hormone esterase in the silkworm Bombyx mori and the red flour beetle Tribolium freemani

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 373-381

  Hirashima, Akinori ^a   Suetsugu, Eiko ^a   Hirokado, Shiori ^a   Kuwano, Eiichi ^a   Taniguchi, Eiji ^a   Eto, Morifusa ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Juvenile hormone esterase; Metamorphosis; Octopamine; Tribolium freemani

Indexed keywords

ESTERASE; OCTOPAMINE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SILKWORM; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 0033403256     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1999.7378     Document Type: Article

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