Cloning of a novel protease required for the molting of Locusta migratoria manilensis

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 611-621

  Wei, Zhang ^a,b   Yin, Youping ^a,b   Zhang, Basheng ^a,b   Wang, Zhongkang ^a,b   Peng, Guoxiong ^a,b   Cao, Yueqing ^a,b   Xia, Yuxian ^a,b  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chongqing Engineering and Technology Centre of Fungal Insecticide   (China)

Author keywords

Lm TSP; Locusta; Molting; Molting fluid protease; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENZYME INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; LARVAL STAGE; LIFE CYCLE; LOCUST; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FAMILY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GRASSHOPPERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLTING; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

HEXAPODA; LOCUSTA; LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA MANILENSIS;

EID: 34548050193     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: 1440169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2007.00957.x     Document Type: Article

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