The short neuropeptide F-like receptor from the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 195-208

  Chen, Mei Er ^a   Pietrantonio, Patricia V ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Feeding; GPCR; Honey bee; Social insect; Transcriptional expression

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE F; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA TECHNIQUE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

APIS MELLIFERA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33645987909     PISSN: 07394462     EISSN: 15206327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/arch.20103     Document Type: Article

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