Metazoan cellulase genes from termites: Intron/exon structures and sites of expression

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1447, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 146-159

  Tokuda, Gaku ^a,c   Lo, Nathan ^b   Watanabe, Hirofumi ^a   Slaytor, Michael ^b   Matsumoto, Tadao ^c   Noda, Hiroaki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cellulase gene; Endo 1,4 glucanase; Termite

Indexed keywords

CELLULASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECT; INTRON; MIDGUT; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELLULASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENES, INSECT; INTRONS; ISOPTERA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; ISOPTERA; METAZOA; MYCETOZOA; NASUTITERMES TAKASAGOENSIS; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS; RHINOTERMITIDAE; TERMITIDAE;

EID: 0032725966     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(99)00169-4     Document Type: Article

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