The aquaporin gene family of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Drake, Lisa L ^a   Boudko, Dmitri Y ^b   Marinotti, Osvaldo ^c   Carpenter, Victoria K ^a   Dawe, Angus L ^a   Hansen, Immo A ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; AQUAPORIN 1; AQUAPORIN 2; AQUAPORIN 3; AQUAPORIN 4; AQUAPORIN 5; AQUAPORIN 6; GLYCEROL; WATER;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIURESIS; FEMALE; GENETIC DATABASE; MALPIGHIAN TUBULE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOSQUITO; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; VECTOR CONTROL; WATER TRANSPORT; AEDES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL; YELLOW FEVER;

AEDES AEGYPTI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA; YELLOW FEVER VIRUS GROUP;

AEDES; ANIMALS; AQUAPORINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GLYCEROL; MALPIGHIAN TUBULES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; WATER; YELLOW FEVER;

EID: 78650847552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015578     Document Type: Article

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