Alternative suppression of transcription from two desaturase genes is the key for species-specific sex pheromone biosynthesis in two Ostrinia moths

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-67

  Sakai, Ryota ^a   Fukuzawa, Mai ^a   Nakano, Ryo ^a   Tatsuki, Sadahiro ^a   Ishikawa, Yukio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Desaturase; Genetics; Ostrinia furnacalis; Ostrinia scapulalis; Sex pheromone

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; INSECT PROTEIN; SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOTH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DOWN-REGULATION; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOTHS; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

LEPIDOPTERA; OSTRINIA; OSTRINIA FURNACALIS; OSTRINIA SCAPULALIS; VIGNA ANGULARIS;

EID: 59849125599     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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