Isolation, Cloning, and Sequencing of Porcine Agouti Exon 2 (PorAex2)

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 155-157

  Wang, Yan ^a   Westby, Carl A ^a,b   Johansen, Marcus ^a   Marshall, Donald M ^a   Granholm, Nels ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SDSU   (United States)

Author keywords

Agouti gene; Exon 2; Pig

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EXON; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SWINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SWINE;

EID: 0032086721     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1998.tb00726.x     Document Type: Article

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