Identification and analysis of two snail genes in the pufferfish (Fugu rubripes) and mapping of human SNA to 20q

Gene

Volumn 247, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 119-128

  Smith, Sarah ^a   Metcalfe, Judith A ^b   Elgar, Greg ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Evolution; Gene duplication; Human 20q; Slu

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; COSMID; DATA BASE; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MESODERM; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEURAL CREST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; XENOPUS; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 20; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FISHES; GENES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

DANIO RERIO; GALLUS GALLUS; GASTROPODA; INVERTEBRATA; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 0034682073     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00110-4     Document Type: Article

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