G protein alpha subunit multigene family in the Japanese puffer fish Fugu rubripes: PCR from a compact vertebrate genome

Genome Research

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1207-1215

  Sarwal, Minnie M ^a   Sontag, Jean Marie ^b   Hoang, Lieu ^b   Brenner, Sydney ^a   Wilkie, Thomas M ^b  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; REPETITIVE DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CODON; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FISH; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; INTRON; MAMMAL CELL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANDEM REPEAT; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0030463563     PISSN: 10549803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.6.12.1207     Document Type: Article

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