Biosynthesis and Control of Mosquito Gut Proteases

IUBMB Life

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 435-441

  Borovsky, Dov ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood meal; Digestion; Midgut; Mosquito; Protease; TMOF; Trypsin

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE HORMONE; PROTEINASE; TRYPSIN; TRYPSIN MODULATING OOSTATIC FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; DIGESTION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE; LARVA; MEAL; MIDGUT; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; JUVENILE HORMONES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NEURONS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; OSMOSIS; TRYPSIN;

ALGAE; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0142244296     PISSN: 15216543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15216540310001597721     Document Type: Review

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