Insect insulin receptors: Insights from sequence and caste expression analyses of two cloned hymenopteran insulin receptor cDNAs from the fire ant

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 637-649

  Lu, H L ^a   Pietrantonio, P V ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

insulin receptor; insulin insulin like growth factor signalling (IIS) pathway; receptor tyrosine kinase; reproduction; social insects; transcript expression

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSECT PROTEIN; INSULIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALE; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ANTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT PROTEINS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MALE; RECEPTOR, INSULIN;

APIS MELLIFERA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 80052961876     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2011.01094.x     Document Type: Article

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