Analysis of ovary-specific genes in relation to egg maturation and female nutritional condition in the mosquitoes Georgecraigius atropalpus and Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)

Journal of Insect Physiology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 283-294

  Telang, Aparna ^a   Rechel, Julie A ^a   Brandt, Jessica R ^a   Donnell, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b The Citadel ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Anautogeny; Apolipophorin III; Autogeny; Gonadotropin inducible transcription factor; Ochlerotatus atropalpus; Oogenesis; Oxysterol binding protein; SSH

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN;

BLOOD; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIPID; MATURATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOSQUITO; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; STEROID;

AEDES; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOSQUITO; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CULICIDAE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOGENESIS; OVARY; OVUM; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874363294     PISSN: 00221910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2012.11.006     Document Type: Article

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