Isolation and comparison of different ecdysone-responsive cuticle protein genes in wing discs of Bombyx mori

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 671-679

  Noji, Takanori ^a   Ote, Manabu ^b   Takeda, Masahisa ^a   Mita, Kazuei ^c   Shimada, Toru ^b   Kawasaki, Hideki ^a  

^a UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bombyx mori; Cuticle protein; Ecdysone; Metamorphosis; Microarray analysis; Wing disc

Indexed keywords

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 0037967651     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(03)00048-1     Document Type: Article

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