Insulin-like peptides in the mosquito Anopheles stephensi: Identification and expression in response to diet and infection with Plasmodium falciparum

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 303-312

  Marquez, Alexander G ^a   Pietri, Jose E ^a   Smithers, Hannah M ^a   Nuss, Andrew ^b   Antonova, Yevgeniya ^c   Drexler, Anna L ^a   Riehle, Michael A ^c   Brown, Mark R ^b   Luckhart, Shirley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anopheles; Insect; Insulin signaling; Malaria; Mosquito; Plasmodium

Indexed keywords

INSULIN LIKE PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ANOPHELES STEPHENSI; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; FEEDING; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 79961128430     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.06.005     Document Type: Article

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