High conservation of the serum response factor within Metazoa: cDNA from the sponge Geodia cydonium

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 127-137

  Scheffer, Ute ^a   Krasko, Anatoli ^a,b   Pancer, Zeev ^a   Müller, Werner E G ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Research Institute for Epidemiology & Microbiology RIEM   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Phylogeny; Porifera; Signal transduction; Stress MADS box motif

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; GEODIA CYDONIUM; METAZOA; PORIFERA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030919681     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1996.0126     Document Type: Article

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