Identification of a chemosensory receptor from the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, that is highly conserved and expressed in olfactory and gustatory organs

Chemical Senses

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 403-410

  Melo, Ana Claudia A ^a,b   Rützler, Michael ^a   Pitts, R Jason ^a   Zwiebel, Laurence J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Host preference; Mosquito; Olfaction; Receptor; Vector

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN AAOR7; PROTEIN AGOR7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GUSTATORY SYSTEM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ISOLATION; AEDES; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSORY GANGLION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YELLOW FEVER;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CHEMORECEPTORS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GANGLIA, SENSORY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; YELLOW FEVER;

EID: 13844284852     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjh041     Document Type: Article

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