Cloning and sequencing of a full-length sea bream (Sparus aurata) β- actin cDNA

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 185-189

  Santos, Cecilia R A ^a   Power, Deborah M ^a   Kille, Peter ^b   Llewellyn, Lynda ^b   Ramsurn, Vimi ^b   Wigham, Trevor ^b   Sweeney, Glen E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Evolution; Sea bream (Sparus aurata); Teleost; actin cDNA

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; AMINO ACID; BETA ACTIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; LIVER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELEOST;

ANIMALIA; ARCHOSARGUS RHOMBOIDALIS; ASCIDIACEA; CYPRINUS CARPIO; DICTYOSTELIUM; HYPEROGLYPHE POROSA; SPARUS AURATA; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 0030852262     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(96)00328-8     Document Type: Article

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