Disruption of vitellogenin gene function in adult honeybees by intra-abdominal injection of double-stranded RNA

BMC Biotechnology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Amdam, Gro V ^a   Simões, Zilá L P ^b   Guidugli, Karina R ^b   Norberg, Kari ^a   Omholt, Stig W ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; VITELLOGENIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EGG; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; HONEYBEE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR PROBE; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; PUPATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TIME; WORKER; ABDOMEN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BEE; CHEMISTRY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INJECTION; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; BEES; BLASTODERM; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; INJECTIONS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; VITELLOGENINS;

EID: 0038464180     PISSN: 14726750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6750-3-1     Document Type: Article

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