Odorant receptor c-terminal motifs in divergent insect species

Journal of Insect Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Miller, Raymond ^a   Tu, Zhijian ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

G protein coupled receptor; Heterodimer; Hidden markov model; MEME; Mosquito; Or83b

Indexed keywords

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; APIS MELLIFERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

EID: 54749143549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15362442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1673/031.008.5301     Document Type: Article

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