Laccase 2 is the phenoloxidase gene required for beetle cuticle tanning

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 32, 2005, Pages 11337-11342

  Arakane, Yasuyuki ^a,b   Muthukrishnan, Subbaratnam ^b   Beeman, Richard W ^a,b   Kanost, Michael R ^b   Kramer, Karl J ^a,b  

^a GRAIN MARKETING AND PRODUCTION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exoskeleton; Pigmentation; RNA interference; Sclerotization; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; ISOENZYME; LACCASE; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; INVERTEBRATE; LACCASE 2 GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SPLICING; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT PROTEINS; ISOENZYMES; LACCASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; TRIBOLIUM;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 23844444472     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0504982102     Document Type: Article

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