Doublesex target genes in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Shukla, Jayendra Nath ^a   Palli, Subba Reddy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; DSX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; EGG PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; VITELLOGENIN; VITELLOGENIN RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG ANTAGONISM; EXON; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRON; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OOCYTE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRIBOLIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EGG PROTEINS; EXONS; FEMALE; INTRONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRIBOLIUM; VITELLOGENINS;

EID: 84871892013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00948     Document Type: Article

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