CPF and CPFL, two related gene families encoding cuticular proteins of Anopheles gambiae and other insects

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 675-688

  Togawa, Toru ^a   Augustine Dunn, W ^a   Emmons, Aaron C ^a   Willis, Judith H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chitin binding; Cuticle; Protein motifs; R R Consensus; Real time qRT PCR

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CUTICLE PROTEINS, INSECTS; INSECT PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENETICS; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLTING; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TENEBRIO;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CHITIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; LARVA; MOLTING; PHYLOGENY; PUPA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TENEBRIO;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; TENEBRIO; TENEBRIO MOLITOR;

EID: 34249712898     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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