Identification of genes expressed in the sex pheromone gland of the black cutworm Agrotis ipsilon with putative roles in sex pheromone biosynthesis and transport

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gu, Shao Hua ^a   Wu, Kong Ming ^a   Guo, Yu Yuan ^a   Pickett, John A ^b   Field, Linda M ^b   Zhou, Jing Jiang ^b   Zhang, Yong Jun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A CARBOXYLASE; ACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; ACYLTRANSFERASE; ALCOHOL OXIDASE; ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; BINDING PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHEMOSENSORY PROTEIN; ESTERASE; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; ODORANT BINDING PROTEIN; SEX PHEROMONE; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGROTIS IPSILON; ANTENNA; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONAD; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HORMONE TRANSPORT; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE;

AGROTIS IPSILON; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

ANIMALS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LIBRARY; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MOTHS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX ATTRACTANTS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84884303079     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-636     Document Type: Article

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