A new chitinase-related gene, BmChiR1, is induced in the Bombyx mori anterior silk gland at molt and metamorphosis by ecdysteroid

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 147-151

  Takahashi, Michiyoshi ^a   Kiuchi, Makoto ^a   Kamimura, Manabu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Chitinase; Differential display; Ecdysteroid; Juvenile hormone; Metamorphosis; Silk gland; Silkworm

Indexed keywords

BMCHIR1 PROTEIN; CARBAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHITINASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ECDYSTEROID; ECDYSTERONE; FENOXYCARB; JUVENILE HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; BMCHIR1PROTEIN, BOMBYX MORI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; FEEDING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETICS; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILK; SILKWORM; ARTICLE;

ARTHROPODA; BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBAMATES; CHITINASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ECDYSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, INSECT; JUVENILE HORMONES; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLTING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SILKWORMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0036006621     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(01)00102-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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