Multiple acyl-CoA desaturase-encoding transcripts in pheromone glands of Helicoverpa assulta, the oriental tobacco budworm

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 609-622

  Jeong, Seong Eun ^b   Rosenfield, Claire Lise ^a   Marsella Herrick, Patricia ^a   You, Kyung Man ^a,c   Knipple, Douglas C ^a  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^b Hannam University   (South Korea)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Acyl CoA desaturase; cDNA; Evolution; Functional expression; Gene family; Helicoverpa assulta; Helicoverpa zea; Heliothinae; Lepidoptera; Noctuidae; RT PCR; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Sex pheromone biosynthesis

Indexed keywords

HELICOVERPA; HELICOVERPA ASSULTA; HELICOVERPA ZEA; HELIOTHINAE; LEPIDOPTERA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; NOCTUIDAE; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ZEA;

EID: 0038807784     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(03)00043-2     Document Type: Article

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