Actin-encoding cDNAs and gene expression during the intermolt cycle of the Bermuda land crab Gecarcinus lateralis

Gene

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 177-184

  Varadaraj, K ^b   Kumari, S Sindhu ^b   Skinner, Dorothy M ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

3' UTR; Actin isoforms; Multigene family; Nucleotide sequence; PCR; Polysomal poly(A)+mRNA

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BETA ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CRAB; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GILL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIMB BUD; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0029994759     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00018-2     Document Type: Article

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