Septic injury-inducible genes in medicinal maggots of the green blow fly Lucilia sericata

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 119-125

  Altincicek, B ^a   Vilcinskas, A ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptides; Insect innate immune response; Lucilia sericata; Suppression subtractive hybridization

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; FLY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DIPTERA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CALLIPHORIDAE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; LUCILIA (BLOWFLY); LUCILIA SERICATA;

EID: 58549118470     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2008.00856.x     Document Type: Article

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