Accessory Gland as a Site for Prothoracicotropic Hormone Controlled Ecdysone Synthesis in Adult Male Insects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Hentze, Julie L ^a   Moeller, Morten E ^b   Jørgensen, Anne F ^a   Bengtsson, Meghan S ^a   Bordoy, Anna M ^a   Warren, James T ^c   Gilbert, Lawrence I ^c   Andersen, Ole ^a   Rewitz, Kim F ^b  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE; ECDYSTERONE; INSECT PROTEIN; PROTHORACICOTROPIC HORMONE; SPOOKIEST PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCESSORY SEX GLAND; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HALLOWEEN GENE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; INSECT GENETICS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; TUBULAR ACCESSORY GLAND;

ANIMALS; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECDYSONE; ECDYSTERONE; EXOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT HORMONES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OVARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 84873260223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055131     Document Type: Article

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