Mytilus protamine-like sperm-specific protein genes are multicopy, dispersed, and closely associated with hypervariable RFLP regions

Genome

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 587-596

  Heath, Daniel D ^a   Hilbish, Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene sequence; Histones; Mussels; Protamine; Southern blot

Indexed keywords

GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HISTONE; INVERTEBRATE GENETICS; PROTAMINE LIKE PROTEIN; PROTEIN GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPERMATOGENESIS;

MYTILUS;

EID: 0032144941     PISSN: 08312796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/g98-057     Document Type: Article

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