Discovery of an alternate metabolic pathway for urea synthesis in adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 518-523

  Scaraffia, Patricia Y ^b   Tan, Guanhong ^a   Isoe, Jun ^b   Wysocki, Vicki H ^a,b   Wells, Michael A ^b   Miesfeld, Roger L ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitrogen metabolism; RNA interference

Indexed keywords

ALLANTOICASE; ALLANTOIN; URATE OXIDASE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; UREA CYCLE;

AEDES; ALLANTOIN; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTAMINE; KINETICS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITROGEN; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; URATE OXIDASE; UREA; URIC ACID;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AMPHIBIA;

EID: 38649112234     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0708098105     Document Type: Article

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