Studies on two ecdysone receptor isoforms of the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 152, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 73-84

  C Perera, Srini ^a,b   R Ladd, Tim ^a   Dhadialla, T S ^c   J Krell, Peter ^b   S Sohi, Sardar ^a   Retnakaran, Arthur ^a   R Palli, Subba ^a,c  

^a GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c ROHM AND HAAS COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

20E induction; Developmental expression; DNA binding; Ligand binding

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE; RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA LIBRARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIGAND BINDING; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; WORM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033603560     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(99)00058-1     Document Type: Article

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