Cloning and expression pattern of the ecdysone receptor and retinoid X receptor from the centipede Lithobius peregrinus (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-69

  Bortolin, Francesca ^a   Piulachs, Maria Dolors ^b   Congiu, Leonardo ^a   Fusco, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

EcR; Gene expression; Molting; Myriapoda; RXR

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; LITHOBIUS PEREGRINUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOID X RECEPTOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 80052779214     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2011.08.008     Document Type: Article

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