Sexual dimorphic expression of putative antennal carrier protein genes in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 581-594

  Justice, R W ^a,b   Dimitratos, S ^b   Walter, M F ^c   Woods, D F ^b   Biessmann, H ^a,c  

^a KECK GRADUATE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Inscent Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anopheles gambiae; Gender specific gene expression; Host finding; Odorant binding proteins; Olfaction

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA PROBES; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMELL;

ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0344664007     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2583.2003.00443.x     Document Type: Article

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