A zebrafish vitellogenin gene (vg3) encodes a novel vitellogenin without a phosvitin domain and may represent a primitive vertebrate vitellogenin gene

Gene

Volumn 256, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 303-310

  Wang, Hai ^a   Yan, Tie ^a   Tan, Jacqueline T T ^a   Gong, Zhiyuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

EST; Fish; Lipovitellin; Polyserine; Teleost; Yolk

Indexed keywords

LIPOVITELLIN; PHOSVITIN; VITELLOGENIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITELLOGENESIS; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSVITIN; PHYLOGENY; RNA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VERTEBRATES; VITELLOGENIN; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 0034601707     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00376-0     Document Type: Article

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