An odorant receptor from the Southern house mosquito Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus sensitive to oviposition attractants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Pelletier, Julien ^a   Hughes, David T ^b   Luetje, Charles W ^b   Leal, Walter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOLE; ODORANT RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; INDOLE DERIVATIVE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; EGG LAYING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; OOCYTE; ORTHOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; HEXAPODA; WEST NILE VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CULEX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INDOLES; OOCYTES; OVIPOSITION; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; XENOPUS;

EID: 77952679883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010090     Document Type: Article

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