Structural diversity and evolution of the N-terminal isoform-specific region of ecdysone receptor-A and -B1 isoforms in insects

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Watanabe, Takayuki ^a   Takeuchi, Hideaki ^a   Kubo, Takeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN; STEROID; LIFE CYCLE; METABOLISM;

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA;

ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; ISOPROTEIN; STEROID RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; INSECT; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; INSECTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 77649220362     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-40     Document Type: Article

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