Molecular analysis of nutritional and hormonal regulation of female reproduction in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 294-305

  Parthasarathy, R ^a   Palli, Subba R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecdysone; Insulin; JH; Ovarian maturation; RNAi; Signaling; Starvation; TOR; Tribolium; Vitellogenesis

Indexed keywords

ECDYSTERONE; INSECT PROTEIN; INSULIN; JUVENILE HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; VITELLOGENIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARVATION; TRIBOLIUM; UPREGULATION; VITELLOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DOWN-REGULATION; ECDYSTERONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; INSULIN; JUVENILE HORMONES; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; REPRODUCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STARVATION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRIBOLIUM; UP-REGULATION; VITELLOGENESIS; VITELLOGENINS;

COLEOPTERA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 79953039527     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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