Analysis of the circadian clock gene period in the sheep blow fly Lucilia cuprina

Genetical Research

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 257-267

  Warman, G R ^c   Newcomb, R D ^b   Lewis, R D ^a   Evans, C W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; GLYCINE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA; THREONINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FLY; GENE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSCILLATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIPTERA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENES, INSECT; GLYCINE; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; SHEEP; THREONINE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; CALLIPHORIDAE; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LUCILIA CUPRINA; LUCILIA SERICATA; OVIS ARIES; SERICATA;

EID: 0034047647     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672399004425     Document Type: Article

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