Cloning and expression of the ecdysteroid receptor during ecdysis and reproduction in females of the soft tick, Ornithodoros moubata (Acari: Argasidae)

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 601-612

  Horigane, M ^a   Ogihara, K ^a   Nakajima, Y ^b   Shinoda, T ^b   Taylor, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ecdysteroid; EcR; Ornithodoros moubata; Tick; Vitellogenesis

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; TICK; TIME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLTING; NYMPH; ORNITHODOROS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; REPRODUCTION; TIME FACTORS;

ACARI; ARGASIDAE; ARTHROPODA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; IXODIDA; LEPIDOPTERA; ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA;

EID: 34748926955     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2007.00754.x     Document Type: Article

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