Anopheles gambiae males produce and transfer the vitellogenic steroid hormone 20-hydroxyecdysone to females during mating

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

Volumn 105, Issue 50, 2008, Pages 19631-19636

  Pondeville, Emilie ^a   Maria, Annick ^a   Jacques, Jean Claude ^a   Bourgouin, Catherine ^b   Dauphin Villemant, Chantal ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Allohormone; Ecdysteroids; Malaria; Male accessory glands; Mosquito

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTERONE; STEROID HORMONE; CYTOCHROME P450; SEX HORMONE;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC MANIPULATION; IMAGO; MALARIA CONTROL; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEROIDOGENESIS; VITELLOGENESIS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COPULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; HEXAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; COPULATION; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; ECDYSTERONE; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; VITELLOGENESIS;

EID: 58149378335     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809264105     Document Type: Article

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