Protamine-like sperm nuclear basic proteins in the primitive frog Ascaphus truei and histone reversions among more advanced frogs

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 284, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 717-728

  Kasinsky, H E ^a   Gutovich, L ^a   Kulak, D ^a   Mackay, M ^a   Green, D M ^c   Hunt, J ^b   Ausio, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c Dept of Biochem and Microbiology University of Victoria ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ANURA; ARCHEOBATRACHIA; ASCAPHIDAE; ASCAPHUS TRUEI; CRINIA; CRINIA SIGNIFERA; LEIOPELMA HOCHSTETTERI; LEIOPELMATIDAE; MYOBATRACHIDAE; NEOBATRACHIA; PIPIDAE; RANIDAE; SILURANA;

EID: 0033485735     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(19991201)284:7<717::AID-JEZ1>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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