Molecular and functional characterization of a juvenile hormone acid methyltransferase expressed in the corpora allata of mosquitoes

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-37

  Mayoral, Jaime G ^a   Nouzova, Marcela ^a   Yoshiyama, Michiyo ^b   Shinoda, Tetsuro ^b   Hernandez Martinez, Salvador ^c   Dolghih, Elena ^d   Turjanski, Adrian G ^e   Roitberg, Adrian E ^d   Priestap, Horacio ^a   Perez, Mario ^a   Mackenzie, Lucy ^a   Li, Yiping ^a   Noriega, Fernando G ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD PÚBLICA   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e Instituto de Quimica Fisica de los Materiales Medio Ambiente y Energia   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Farnesoic acid; Juvenile hormone; Methyltransferase; Mosquito

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; JUVENILE HORMONE; METHYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CORPUS ALLATUM; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOSQUITO; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CORPORA ALLATA; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT PROTEINS; JUVENILE HORMONES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AEDES AEGYPTI; BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 60049087080     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2008.09.010     Document Type: Article

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