Cloning, sequencing and expression of stem cell factor (c-kit ligand) cDNA of brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 789-795

  Greenwood, P J ^a   Seamer, C ^a   Tisdall, D J ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TESTIS;

ALOPIAS; ANIMALIA; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 0029820399     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD9960789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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