Vitellogenin of the cockroach, Leucophaea maderae: Nucleotide sequence, structure and analysis of processing in the fat body and oocytes

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1469-1476

  Tufail, Muhammad ^a   Takeda, Makio ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA; Cockroach; Leucophaea maderae; Processing; Vitellin; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; POLYPEPTIDE; VITELLOGENIN; PRIMER DNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 12S;

ADIPOCYTE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COCKROACH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; FAT BODY; FEMALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; LEUCOPHAEA MADERAE; PERIPLANETA; PERIPLANETA AMERICANA;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COCKROACHES; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; VITELLOGENINS;

EID: 0036837497     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(02)00067-X     Document Type: Article

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