Polyamines, and effects from reducing their synthesis during egg development in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1079-1095

  Kogan, Philip H ^a   Hagedorn, Henry H ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

difluromethylornithine; monofluoromethyldehydroomithine methylester; Aedes aegypti; DFMO; MDME; Mosquito; Oogenesis; Ornithine decarboxylase; Polyamines

Indexed keywords

ADENOSYLMETHIONINE DECARBOXYLASE; DNA; EFLORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYAMINE; RNA; VITELLOGENIN;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; RNA SYNTHESIS; VITELLOGENESIS;

EID: 0034097976     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1910(99)00084-0     Document Type: Article

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