Search for phase specific genes in the brain of desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria (Orthoptera: Acrididae) by differential display polymerase chain reaction

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 221-228

  Rahman, M M ^a,b   Vandingenen, A ^a   Begum, M ^a   Breuer, M ^a   De Loof, A ^a   Huybrechts, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF FOOD AND RADIATION BIOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

DDRT PCR; Gene expression; Locust; Locust phase transition; Molecular marker; Phase polymorphism; Schistocerca gregaria; SPARC

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN SPARC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DIFFERENTIAL DISPLAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PARAMETERS; LOCUST; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN FAMILY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACRIDIDAE; ANIMALIA; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 0038696515     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00050-3     Document Type: Article

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