Systemic RNAi of the cockroach vitellogenin receptor results in a phenotype similar to that of the Drosophila yolkless mutant

FEBS Journal

Volumn 273, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 325-335

  Ciudad, Laura ^a   Piulachs, Maria Dolors ^a   Bellés, Xavier ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blattella germanica; Panoistic ovaries; Vitellogenin receptor; Yolkless

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIN; VITELLOGENIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; COCKROACH; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEMOLYMPH; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COCKROACHES; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; MALE; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

BLATTARIA; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 33644964097     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.05066.x     Document Type: Article

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