Phenotypic effects induced by knock-down of the period clock gene in Bombyx mori

Genetical Research

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 73-84

  Sandrelli, Federica ^a   Cappellozza, Silva ^b   Benna, Clara ^a   Saviane, Alessio ^b   Mastella, Antonio ^b   Mazzotta, Gabriella M ^a   Moreau, Stephane ^a   Pegoraro, Mirko ^a   Piccin, Alberto ^a   Zordan, Mauro A ^a   Cappellozza, Luciano ^b   Kyriacou, Charalambos P ^c   Costa, Rodolfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PER1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EGG LAYING; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC STRAIN; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POSTTRANSCRIPTIONAL GENE SILENCING; REARING; SERICULTURE; SILKWORM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BOMBYX; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SILK;

BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34547734441     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: 14695073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672307008713     Document Type: Article

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