Chitin synthase 1 gene and its two alternative splicing variants from two sap-sucking insects, Nilaparvata lugens and Laodelphax striatellus (Hemiptera: Delphacidae)

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 637-646

  Wang, Ying ^a   Fan, Hai Wei ^a   Huang, Hai Jian ^a   Xue, Jian ^a   Wu, Wen Juan ^a   Bao, Yan Yuan ^a   Xu, Hai Jun ^a   Zhu, Zeng Rong ^a   Cheng, Jia An ^a   Zhang, Chuan Xi ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chitin synthase 1; Lacking CHS2; Laodelphax striatellus; Nilaparvata lugens; RNAi; Transcript variants

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; INSECT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; EXON; GENETICS; GENOME; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEMIPTERA; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CHITIN SYNTHASE; EXONS; GENOME, INSECT; HEMIPTERA; INSECT PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACYRTHOSIPHON PISUM; ARCHAEORRHYNCHA; DELPHACIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; LAODELPHAX STRIATELLUS; NILAPARVATA LUGENS;

EID: 84864797604     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.04.009     Document Type: Article

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