The insect caspases

Apoptosis

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 247-256

  Cooper, Dawn M ^a   Granville, David J ^a   Lowenberger, Carl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aedes mosquito; Caspase function; Drosophila; Insects; Lepidoptera

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; APHID; APOPTOSIS; BEETLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENOME; HOMEOSTASIS; INSECT; INSECT GENOME; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; PEA; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TRIBOLIUM; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, INSECT; INSECTS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; COLEOPTERA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 60649092388     PISSN: 13608185     EISSN: 1573675X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10495-009-0322-1     Document Type: Review

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