RNAi-mediated knockdown of juvenile hormone acid O-methyltransferase gene causes precocious metamorphosis in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

FEBS Journal

Volumn 275, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2919-2931

  Minakuchi, Chieka ^a,b   Namiki, Toshiki ^a   Yoshiyama, Michiyo ^a   Shinoda, Tetsuro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Juvenile hormone; Juvenile hormone acid O methyltransferase; Metamorphosis; RNA interference; Tribolium castaneum

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; JUVENILE HORMONE; JUVENILE HORMONE ACID O METHYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; METHOPRENE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; METHYLTRANSFERASE 2; METHYLTRANSFERASE 3;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS ALLATUM; DROSOPHILA; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LARVAL STAGE; LIFE CYCLE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SILKWORM; TRIBOLIUM; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HORMONES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; JUVENILE HORMONES; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 43549093126     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2008.06428.x     Document Type: Article

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