Pharmacological and genetic evidence for gap junctions as potential new insecticide targets in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Calkins, Travis L ^a   Piermarini, Peter M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; INNEXIN PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; INSECTICIDE; MECLOFENAMIC ACID; MEFLOQUINE; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMOLYMPH; IMAGO; IN VIVO STUDY; INSECT GENETICS; INSECTICIDAL ACTIVITY; INVERTEBRATE; LARVA; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; SURVIVAL; URINARY EXCRETION; URINE VOLUME; VERTEBRATE; YELLOW FEVER; AEDES; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; GENETICS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

AEDES; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; HEMOLYMPH; INSECTICIDES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 84943252208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0137084     Document Type: Article

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