Ecdysone receptor in the mud crab Scylla paramamosain: A possible role in promoting ovarian development

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 224, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 273-287

  Gong, Jie ^a   Ye, Haihui ^a,b   Xie, Yinjie ^a   Yang, Yanan ^a   Huang, Huiyang ^a   Li, Shaojing ^a   Zeng, Chaoshu ^b,c  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Fujian Collab Innovation Center for Exploitation and Utilization of Marine Biological Resources   (China)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

20 hydroxyecdysone; Ecdysone receptor; Ovarian development; Scylla paramamosain; SpEcR dsRNA

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; ECDYSTERONE; MESSENGER RNA; VITELLOGENIN; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRAB; ECR GENE; EPIDERMIS; EYE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEMOLYMPH; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCYLLA PARAMAMOSAIN; SPECR GENE; SPVG GENE; VITELLOGENESIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BRACHYURA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRACHYURA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEMOLYMPH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARY; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VITELLOGENESIS;

EID: 84924778285     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/JOE-14-0526     Document Type: Article

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