Multiple lobster tubulin isoforms are encoded by a simple gene family

Gene

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 185-191

  Demers, David M ^a   Metcalf, Anthony E ^a   Talbot, Prue ^a   Hyman, Bradley C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaperonins; Crustacea; Homarus americanus; Microtubules; Phylogenetics; Tegumental glands

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOPROTEIN; MICROTUBULE PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA PROBE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; INTEGUMENT; LOBSTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030009845     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00006-6     Document Type: Article

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