Structure and polymorphism of the Chironomus thummi gene encoding special lobe-specific silk protein, ssp160

Gene

Volumn 223, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 347-354

  Berezikov, Eugene ^a   Blinov, Alexander G ^a   Scherbik, Svetlana ^a   Cox, Carol K ^b   Case, Steven T ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Exons; In situ hybridization; Introns; Nucleotide sequence variants; Repeated glycosylation motifs; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Transcription start point

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CODON; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SALIVARY GLAND; SILK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GLYCOPROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; INTRONS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SALIVARY PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SILK;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0032569970     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00165-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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