Molecular cloning, nucleotide sequence and gene expression of a transferrin gene from the rice stem borer, Chilo suppressalis Walker (Lepidoptera: Crambidae)

Applied Entomology and Zoology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 463-468

  Sonoda, Shoji ^a   Maruyama, Tetsuya ^a,b   Izumi, Yohei ^a   Yoshida, Hideya ^a   Tsumuki, Hisaaki ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kobayashi Phamaceutical Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Larval diapause; The rice stem borer; Transferrin

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; BLABERUS; BLABERUS DISCOIDALIS; BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; CHILO; CHILO SUPPRESSALIS; CRAMBINAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA SILVESTRIS; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA SEXTA; MELANOGASTER; PEREGRINA; RIPTORTUS CLAVATUS; SARCOPHAGA PEREGRINA;

EID: 8344276855     PISSN: 00036862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1303/aez.2004.463     Document Type: Article

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