Structure and juvenile hormone-mediated regulation of the HMG-CoA reductase gene from the Jeffrey pine beetle, Dendroctonus jeffreyi

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 199, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 11-21

  Tittiger, Claus ^a   Barkawi, Lana S ^a,b   Bengoa, Cody S ^a   Blomquist, Gary J ^a   Seybold, Steven J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetle; Gene structure; HMG CoA reductase; Juvenile hormone; Regulated expression

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE; JUVENILE HORMONE; PHEROMONE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRON; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COA REDUCTASES; INTRONS; JUVENILE HORMONES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SESQUITERPENES;

EID: 0037474139     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(02)00358-1     Document Type: Article

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