The orphan nuclear receptors BmE75A and BmE75C of the silkmoth Bombyx mori: Hornmonal control and ovarian expression

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1643-1652

  Swevers, L ^a   Eystathioy, T ^b   Iatrou, K ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

20E; Bombyx mori; E75; Ecdysone response; Follicular cells; Nuclear receptor; Oogenesis

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; INSECT HORMONE; ISOPROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHORION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SILKWORM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BOMBYX; CHORION; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSECT HORMONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0036890706     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(02)00104-2     Document Type: Article

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