Physiological significance of alternatively spliced exon combinations of the single-copy gene class a chitin synthase in the insect Ostrinia furnacalis (Lepidoptera)

Insect Molecular Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 395-404

  Qu, M ^a   Yang, Q ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

20E; alternative splicing; chitin synthase; insect; isoform; RNAi

Indexed keywords

CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; ECDYSTERONE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LEPIDOPTERA; METAMORPHOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CHITIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; ECDYSTERONE; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LEPIDOPTERA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGAN SPECIFICITY;

BOMBYX MORI; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; OSTRINIA FURNACALIS;

EID: 84863726093     PISSN: 09621075     EISSN: 13652583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2583.2012.01145.x     Document Type: Article

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