Conservation of indole responsive odorant receptors in mosquitoes reveals an ancient olfactory trait

Chemical Senses

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 149-160

  Bohbot, Jonathan D ^a,b   Jones, Patrick L ^a   Wang, Guirong ^a   Pitts, R Jason ^a   Pask, Gregory M ^a   Zwiebel, Laurence J ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Anopheles gambiae; Indole; Mosquito; Odorant receptor; Olfaction; Oviposition

Indexed keywords

BENZALDEHYDE; GENE PRODUCT; INDOLE; PARA CRESOL; PROTEIN OR10; PROTEIN OR2; PROTEIN OR8; PROTEIN OR9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; FEMALE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELINAE; CULICINAE;

EID: 78651465935     PISSN: 0379864X     EISSN: 14643553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/chemse/bjq105     Document Type: Article

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