Expression of the genes encoding the ecdysteroid and retinoid receptors in regenerating limb tissues from the fiddler crab, Uca pugilator

Gene

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 237-241

  Durica, David S ^a   Hopkins, Penny M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastema; cDNA clones; Crustacea; EcR; Nuclear receptor superfamily; Nucleotide sequence; Recombinant DNA; RXR

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ECDYSTEROID; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; STEROID RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BLASTEMA; CRAB; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DIMERIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE NUMBER; INTRON; LIMB REGENERATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0029931146     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00047-9     Document Type: Article

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