Cloning of the αA-crystallin genes of a blind cave form and the epigean form of Astyanax fasciatus: A comparative analysis of structure, expression and evolutionary conservation

Gene

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 319-326

  Behrens, Maik ^a   Wilkens, Horst ^b   Schmale, Hartwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Characidae; Eye development; Gene regulation; In situ hybridization; Pisces; Regressive evolution

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; CRYSTALLIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELEOST; ANIMAL; BLINDNESS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FISH; GENE; GENETICS; LENS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ASTYANAX FASCIATUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLINDNESS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRYSTALLINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FISHES; GENES; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0032584797     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00346-1     Document Type: Article

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