An ecdysteroid-responsive gene in a lobster - A potential crustacean member of the steroid hormone receptor superfamily

Gene

Volumn 201, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 127-135

  El Haj, A J ^a   Tamone, S L ^b   Peake, M ^a   Sreenivasula Reddy, P ^b   Chang, E S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Ecdysteroid receptor; Gene regulation; Homarus americanus; Manduca

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ECDYSTEROID; ECDYSTERONE; MESSENGER RNA; STEROID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EPIDERMIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; LEPIDOPTERA; LOBSTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLTING; MUSCLE TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ECDYSTEROIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEPHROPIDAE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STEROIDS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HOMARUS AMERICANUS; LEPIDOPTERA; MANDUCA; MANDUCA SEXTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030786679     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00437-X     Document Type: Article

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