Elevated couch potato transcripts associated with adult diapause in the mosquito Culex pipiens

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 620-627

  Zhang, Qirui ^a   Denlinger, David L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Couch potato; Culex pipiens; Diapause; Expression pattern; Gene structure

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ABUNDANCE; ADULT; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DAY LENGTH; DIAPAUSE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; MOSQUITO; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POTATO;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CULEX; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; LARVA; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CULEX; ESTIVATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PUPA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS PIPIENS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 79957507648     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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