Sex pheromone desaturase functioning in a primitive Ostrinia moth is cryptically conserved in congeners' genomes

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

Volumn 108, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 7102-7106

  Fujii, Takeshi ^a   Ito, Katsuhiko ^a   Tatematsu, Mitsuko ^a   Shimada, Toru ^a   Katsuma, Susumu ^a   Ishikawa, Yukio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Baculovirus expression system; Speciation

Indexed keywords

11 TETRADECENOATE; 11 TETRADECENYL ACETATE; DELTA 11 DESATURASE; ENZYME; SEX PHEROMONE; TETRADECANOATE; TETRADECENOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME MECHANISM; EUROPEAN CORN BORER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; ISOMERISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSTRINIA; OSTRINIA FURNACALIS; OSTRINIA LATIPENNIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ACETYLATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; FEMALE; GENOME, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PHYLOGENY; SEX ATTRACTANTS;

LEPIDOPTERA; OSTRINIA; OSTRINIA FURNACALIS; OSTRINIA LATIPENNIS; OSTRINIA NUBILALIS;

EID: 79955553166     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1019519108     Document Type: Article

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