Cloning, sequencing and differential expression of αB-crystallin in the zebrafish, Danio rerio

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1447, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 271-277

  Posner, Mason ^a   Kantorow, Marc ^b   Horwitz, Joseph ^a  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

B crystallin; Lens; RT PCR; Small heat shock protein; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VERTEBRATE; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ZEBRAFISH;

DANIO RERIO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032719659     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(99)00155-4     Document Type: Article

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