Developmental profiles of ecdysteroids, ecdysteroid receptor mRNAs and DNA binding properties of ecdysteroid receptors in the ixodid tick Amblyomma americanum (L.)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 465-476

  Palmer, Melanie J ^a   Warren, James T ^b   Jin, Xiaojing ^a   Guo, Xiaoping ^a   Gilbert, Lawrence I ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecdysteroid; Ecdysteroid receptor; EcR; Molting; Retinoid x receptor; RXR

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEINS; ECDYSTEROID; ECDYSTEROID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RECEPTOR; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR;

AMBLYOMMA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IXODIDAE; LARVAL STAGE; METABOLISM; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; RNA ANALYSIS; SHEEP; TICK; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

ACARI; AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; APOLYSIS; IXODIDA;

ANIMALS; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ECDYSTEROIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IXODIDAE; MOLTING; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RETINOID X RECEPTORS; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036009137     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(01)00124-2     Document Type: Article

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