Coordinate responses of transcription factors to ecdysone during programmed cell death in the anterior silk gland of the silkworm, Bombyx mori

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 281-292

  Sekimoto, T ^a   Iwami, M ^a   Sakurai, S ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

20 hydroxyecdysone; Anterior silk gland; Bombyx mori; Early and early late genes; Programmed cell death

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METAMORPHOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVARY GLAND; SILKWORM;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; CELL DEATH; DROSOPHILA; ECDYSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; SALIVARY GLANDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 33744538854     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2006.00641.x     Document Type: Article

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