Functional characterization of PAS and HES family bHLH transcription factors during the metamorphosis of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

Gene

Volumn 448, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-87

  Bitra, Kavita ^a   Tan, Anjiang ^a   Dowling, Ashley ^a   Palli, Subba R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

bHLH transcription factors; Red flour beetle; RNA interference; Steroid receptor coactivator

Indexed keywords

ATONAL PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX HES TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX PAS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MYC PROTEIN; NEUROGENIC DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR; NEUROGENIN; PROTEIN AS C; PROTEIN HAND; PROTEIN MESP; PROTEIN P48; PROTEIN SHOUT; STEROID RECEPTOR COACTIVATOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UPSTREAM STIMULATORY FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH INHIBITION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLTING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PUPATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 70349785049     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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