Insect nuclear receptors

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2012, Pages 83-106

  Fahrbach, Susan E ^a   Smagghe, Guy ^b   Velarde, Rodrigo A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Diacylhydrazines; Ecdysteroids; Gene switch; Genome project; Isoform; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; INSECT PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; INSECT; INSECT CONTROL; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENOME, INSECT; GENOMICS; INSECT CONTROL; INSECT PROTEINS; INSECTS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR;

EID: 83455205911     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120710-100607     Document Type: Article

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