Isolation of the ovine agouti coding sequence

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 394-397

  Parsons, Yvonne M ^a,c   Fleet, Malcolm R ^b   Cooper, Des W ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHEEP; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 0033255269     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1999.tb00524.x     Document Type: Article

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