microRNA miR-275 is indispensable for blood digestion and egg development in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

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

Volumn 107, Issue 52, 2010, Pages 22391-22398

  Bryant, Bart ^a   Macdonald, Warren ^a   Raikhel, Alexander S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Dicer; Ecdysone; Small RNA

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ECDYSTERONE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 275; STEROID HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DIGESTION; EGG PRODUCTION; FEMALE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OOCYTE MATURATION; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AEDES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOOD; BLOTTING, WESTERN; ECDYSTERONE; FAT BODY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSECT PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

AEDES AEGYPTI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78651061516     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1016230107     Document Type: Article

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