cDNA cloning of acyl-CoA desaturase homologs in the silkworm, Bombyx mori

Gene

Volumn 246, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 339-345

  Yoshiga, Toyoshi ^a   Okano, Kazuhiro ^a   Mita, Kazuei ^b   Shimada, Toru ^c   Matsumoto, Shogo ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Insect; PBAN; Pheromone gland

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HISTIDINE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; PALMITIC ACID; PHEROMONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FAT BODY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BOMBYX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX ATTRACTANTS;

ANIMALIA; BOMBYX MORI; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; TRICHOPLUSIA NI;

EID: 0034603803     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00047-0     Document Type: Article

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