Cloning and characterization of a chitin synthase cDNA from the mosquito Aedes aegypti

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1213-1222

  Ibrahim, Ghada H ^a   Smartt, Chelsea T ^a   Kiley, Lynn M ^a   Christensen, Bruce M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Chitin synthase; Peritrophic matrix

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AEDES; AEDES AEGYPTI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOSQUITO; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA; PROTOZOA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033757056     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(00)00100-4     Document Type: Article

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