The differential pattern of tissue-specific expression of ruminant pancreatic type ribonucleases may help to understand the evolutionary history of their genes

Gene

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 205-212

  Sasso, Maria Paola ^a   Lombardi, Maria ^a   Confalone, Elena ^a   Carsana, Antonella ^a   Palmieri, Marta ^b   Furia, Adriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bos taurus; Gene differentiation; Pseudogene; Ribonuclease

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE; RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANCREAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINAL VESICLE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; CATTLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANCREAS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RIBONUCLEASES; RNA, MESSENGER; RUMINANTS; SEMINAL VESICLES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; ARTIODACTYLA; BOS TAURUS; BOVINAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0033580280     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00586-1     Document Type: Article

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