Cloning, sequencing and characterization of the tilapia insulin gene

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 291-297

  Mansour, Marc ^a   Wright Jr , James R ^b   Pohajdak, Bill ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brockmann bodies; Gene; Insulin; Introns; Oreochromis niloticus; Tilapia

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INSULIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TILAPIA;

MAMMALIA; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PRIMATES; TILAPIA;

EID: 0031699870     PISSN: 03050491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0491(98)10102-5     Document Type: Article

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