The Gr family of candidate gustatory and olfactory receptors in the yellow-fever mosquito Aedes aegypti

Chemical Senses

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 79-93

  Kent, Lauren B ^a   Walden, Kimberly K O ^a   Robertson, Hugh M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemoreceptor; Gene annotation; Gene phylogeny; Molecular evolution; Olfaction; Taste

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN AAGR; PROTEIN AGGR; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CHEMORECEPTOR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PSEUDOGENE; SMELLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TASTE; TASTE BUD;

AEDES; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENOME, INSECT; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; TASTE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 38949141137     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjm067     Document Type: Article

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