Alternative splicing and genomic organization of the L5-67 gene of Aplysia californica

Gene

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 271-277

  Angers, Annie ^a   Desgroseillers, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kidney; Mollusks; mRNA distribution; Neuropeptide gene

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; APLYSIA; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; KIDNEY; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GENOMIC LIBRARY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KIDNEY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032570680     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00009-2     Document Type: Article

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