Three pheromone-binding proteins help segregation between two Helicoverpa species utilizing the same pheromone components

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 708-716

  Guo, Hao ^a   Huang, Ling Qiao ^a   Pelosi, Paolo ^a,b   Wang, Chen Zhu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b Dipartimento di Biologia delle Piante Agrarie   (Italy)

Author keywords

Binding assay; Conformational change; Helicoverpa armigera; Helicoverpa assulta; Pheromone binding protein; Western blot

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; LIGAND; PHEROMONE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOTH; PH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INSECT PROTEINS; LIGANDS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTHS; PHEROMONES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOVERPA; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA; HELICOVERPA ASSULTA; NOCTUIDAE;

EID: 84864822507     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2012.06.004     Document Type: Article

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