Role of methoprene-tolerant (Met) in adult morphogenesis and in adult ecdysis of Blattella germanica

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Lozano, Jesus ^a   Belles, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR; METHOPRENE; PEPTIDE HORMONE; VITELLOGENIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; INSECT PROTEIN; JUVENILE HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLATTELLA GERMANICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; E75A GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; MALE; METAMORPHOSIS; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYMPH; PARANEOPTERA; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRRHOCORIS APTERUS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLATTELLIDAE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BLATTELLIDAE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; INSECT PROTEINS; JUVENILE HORMONES; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; METHOPRENE; MOLTING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84904994912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103614     Document Type: Article

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