A leech homolog of twist: Evidence for its inheritance as a maternal mRNA

Gene

Volumn 199, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 31-37

  Soto, Julio G ^a,b   Nelson, Brad H ^a,c   Weisblat, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Maternal genes; Mesoderm

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; LEECH; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; LEECHES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 0030816993     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00327-2     Document Type: Article

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