Cut-1-like genes of Ascaris lumbricoides

Gene

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 81-87

  Timinouni, Mohammed ^a   Bazzicalupo, Paolo ^b  

^a Institut Pasteur du Maroc   (Morocco)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

C. elegans; CECUT 1; Cuticle; Cuticlin; Nematodes; Parasite

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CUTICLE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EXON; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0030833595     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00089-9     Document Type: Article

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