Armigeres subalbatus prophenoloxidase III: Cloning, characterization and potential role in morphogenesis

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 96-104

  Tsao, I Y ^a   Lin, U S ^a   Christensen, B M ^b   Chen, C C ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Double stranded RNA interference; Morphogenesis; Mosquito; Promoter activity; Prophenoloxidase

Indexed keywords

ENZYME PRECURSOR; INSECT PROTEIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOSQUITO; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULICIDAE; ENZYME PRECURSORS; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; MORPHOGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

ARMIGERES SUBALBATUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 60849135394     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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