cDNA cloning of luteinizing hormone subunits from brushtail possum and red kangaroo

Mammalian Genome

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 638-642

  Harrison, Gavan A ^a,b   Deane, Elizabeth M ^a,b   Cooper, Desmond W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; FOLLITROPIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; KANGAROO; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MACROPODIDAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPOSSUMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VERTEBRATES;

ALOPIAS; ANIMALIA; EUTHERIA; MACROPUS RUFUS; MACROPUS SP.; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031880580     PISSN: 09388990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003359900836     Document Type: Article

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