Immunolocalization of the short neuropeptide F receptor in queen brains and ovaries of the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta Buren)

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Lu, Hsiao Ling ^a   Pietrantonio, Patricia V ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE F; NEUROPEPTIDE F RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANT; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FEEDING; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OVARY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; FEMALE; METABOLISM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; FEMALE; NEUROPEPTIDES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARY; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 79958287323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-12-57     Document Type: Article

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