A Bombyx mori gene, BmChi-h, encodes a protein homologous to bacterial and baculovirus chitinases

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 749-759

  Daimon, Takaaki ^a   Hamada, Koutaro ^a,d   Mita, Kazuei ^b   Okano, Kazuhiro ^c,e   Suzuki, Masataka G ^a,c   Kobayashi, Masahiko ^a   Shimada, Toru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d ASAHI BREWERIES LTD   (Japan)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baculovirus; Bombyx mori; Chitinase; Expressed sequence tag (EST); Horizontal gene transfer; Serratia marcescens

Indexed keywords

AUTOGRAPHA; AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA; AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS;

EID: 0041707803     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0965-1748(03)00084-5     Document Type: Article

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