Odorant receptor-mediated sperm activation in disease vector mosquitoes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2566-2571

  Pitts, R Jason ^a   Liu, Chao ^a   Zhou, Xiaofan ^a   Malpartida, Juan C ^a   Zwiebel, Laurence J ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell signaling; Chemical ecology; Culicidae; Gamete; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; DISEASE CARRIER; FLAGELLUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS;

CELL SIGNALING; CHEMICAL ECOLOGY; CULICIDAE; GAMETE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; INSECT VECTORS; MALE; RECEPTORS, ODORANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM TAIL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TESTIS;

EID: 84894315953     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1322923111     Document Type: Article

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