Identification of 20-hydroxyecdysone late-response genes in the chitin biosynthesis pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Yao, Qiong ^a   Zhang, Daowei ^a   Tang, Bin ^a,b   Chen, Jie ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Lu, Liang ^a   Zhang, Wenqing ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HANGZHOU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; ECDYSTERONE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITOR; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; INSECT PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INSECT; LARVA; LATE RESPONSE GENE; LEPIDOPTERA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PUPATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA; ANIMAL; ARMYWORM; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

HEXAPODA; SPODOPTERA EXIGUA;

ANIMALS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHITIN; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; ECDYSTERONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SPODOPTERA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78649505813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014058     Document Type: Article

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