Cloning and molecular characterization of the cDNA for the Brazilian larval click-beetle Pyrearinus termitilluminans luciferase

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 254-260

  Viviani, V R ^a,b   Silva, A C R ^a   Perez, G L O ^a   Santelli, R V ^a   Bechara, E J H ^a   Reinach, F C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; ELATERIDAE; ISOPTERA; PYREARINUS TERMITILLUMINANS; PYROPHORUS PLAGIOPHTHALAMUS;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LUCIFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEETLES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033174499     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb07997.x     Document Type: Article

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