Two storage hexamerins from the beet armyworm Spodoptera exigua: Cloning, characterization and the effect of gene silencing on survival

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tang, Bin ^a   Wang, Shigui ^a   Zhang, Fan ^b  

^a HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXAMERIN 1; INSECT PROTEIN; STORAGE PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RNA; STORAGE PROTEINS, INSECTA;

ARMYWORM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; FAT BODY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; LARVA; MALPIGHIAN TUBULE; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); REPRODUCTION; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; STARVATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRACHEA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

HEXAPODA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; INSECT PROTEINS; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA; SPODOPTERA; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 77956455541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-11-65     Document Type: Article

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