GP-9s are ubiquitous proteins unlikely involved in olfactory mediation of social organization in the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Leal, Walter S ^a   Ishida, Yuko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECT PROTEIN; LIGAND; LIPID; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN GP 9B; PROTEIN SINVCSP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CARRIER PROTEIN;

ANT; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; LIPID TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COLONY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SMELLING; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; ALLELE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GENETICS; HEMOLYMPH; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; ODOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

COLEOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; HEMOLYMPH; INSECT PROTEINS; LIGANDS; LIPIDS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PHEROMONES; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 56649117299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003762     Document Type: Article

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