Ecdysteroids and oocyte development in the black fly Simulium vittatum

BMC Developmental Biology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-5

  Noriega, Rafael ^b   Ramberg, Frank B ^a   Hagedorn, Henry H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTEROID; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LEVEL; DENSITOMETRY; DENSITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SIMULIUM; SIMULIUM VITTATUM; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; DIPTERA; NEMATOCERA; ONCHOCERCA; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; SIMULIUM VITTATUM;

EID: 3342889462     PISSN: 1471213X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-213X-2-6     Document Type: Article

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