Evolution of multicomponent pheromone signals in small ermine moths involves a single fatty-acyl reductase gene

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 10955-10960

  Liénard, Marjorie A ^a   Hagström, Åsa K ^a   Lassance, Jean Marc ^a   Löfstedt, Christer ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biosynthetic enzyme; Chemical communication; Gene family evolution; Lepidoptera; Yponomeuta

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A; ALCOHOL; FATTY ACYL COA REDUCTASE; FATTY ALCOHOL; FATTY ALCOHOL C14; FATTY ALCOHOL C16; MESSENGER RNA; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; INSECT GENOME; LEPIDOPTERA; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SILKWORM; YEAST;

ALDEHYDE OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DNA PRIMERS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX ATTRACTANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

BOMBYX MORI; EUKARYOTA; LEPIDOPTERA; YPONOMEUTA; YPONOMEUTA EVONYMELLUS; YPONOMEUTA PADELLUS; YPONOMEUTA RORRELLUS; YPONOMEUTIDAE;

EID: 77954638818     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000823107     Document Type: Article

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