Molecular cloning and developmental expression of the alpha-2 tubulin gene of Caenorhabditis elegans

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 234, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 1290-1300

  Fukushige, Tetsunari ^a   Yasuda, Hachiro ^a   Siddiqui, Shahid S ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

alpha tubulin gene; tissue specific expression; trans splicing; transgenic C. elegans; tubulin diversity

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0027742821     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1993.1685     Document Type: Article

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