Transcript profiling of pacifastin-like peptide precursors in crowd- and isolated-reared desert locusts

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 317, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 565-569

  Simonet, Gert ^a   Claeys, Ilse ^a   Breugelmans, Bert ^a   Van Soest, Sofie ^a   De Loof, Arnold ^a   Vanden Broeck, Jozef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Gregarious; Peptide family; Phase transition; Protease inhibitor; Real time PCR; Schistocerca gregaria; Solitary

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT BODY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LOCUST; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRASSHOPPERS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 1842479014     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.03.078     Document Type: Article

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