The first contiguous estrogen receptor gene from a fish, Oreochromis aureus: Evidence for multiple transcripts

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 177-192

  Tan, Nguan Soon ^a   Lam, Toong Jin ^a   Ding, Jeak Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor; Gene sequence; Imperfect ERE; Multiple transcripts; Oreochromis aureus; Transcription signals

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; NUCLEASE S1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; FISH; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0030199891     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-7207(96)03836-1     Document Type: Article

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