Characterization of hexamerin proteins and their mRNAs in the adult lubber grasshopper: The effects of nutrition and juvenile hormone on their levels

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 323-332

  Hathaway, M ^a   Hatle, J ^a   Li, S ^a   Ding, X ^a   Barry, T ^a   Hong, F ^a   Wood, H ^a   Borst, D ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cDNA; Diet; Fat body; Hemolymph protein; Hexamerins; Lubber grasshopper

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; METHOPRENE; PROTEIN HEXAMERIN; TRYPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITELLOGENIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GRASSHOPPER; HEMOLYMPH; HORMONE DETERMINATION; JUVENILE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITION; OOCYTE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; ROMALEA MICROPTERA; ROMALEIDAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DIET; FEMALE; GRASSHOPPERS; HEMOLYMPH; INSECT PROTEINS; JUVENILE HORMONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 70149115442     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2009.06.018     Document Type: Article

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