Diversity of insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 683, Issue , 2010, Pages 25-43

  Jones, Andrew K ^a   Sattelle, David B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; FIPRONIL; IMIDACLOPRID; INSECTICIDE; NEONICOTINOID; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA2; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA3; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA5; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA6; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA3; SPINOSAD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HONEYBEE; INSECT; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA EDITING; RNA SPLICING; SILKWORM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRIBOLIUM; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; APIS MELLIFERA; BOMBYX MORI; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; VERTEBRATA;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEST CONTROL; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 79958059025     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6445-8_3     Document Type: Article

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