The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor gene family of the honey bee, Apis mellifera

Genome Research

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1422-1430

  Jones, Andrew K ^a   Raymond Delpech, Valerie ^b   Thany, Steeve H ^b   Gauthier, Monique ^b   Sattelle, David B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; HONEYBEE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BEES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; RNA EDITING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; APIS MELLIFERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HELIOTHIS VIRESCENS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33748118463     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.4549206     Document Type: Article

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