Identification of the aromatic L-amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) gene and its expression in the attachment and metamorphosis of the barnacle, Balanus amphitrite

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 33-41

  Okazaki, Yuichi ^a,b   Shizuri, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

AADC; Barnacle; Dopamine; Metamorphosis; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYTRYPTOPHAN; AROMATIC LEVO AMINO ACID DECARBOXYLASE; DNA; DOPAMINE; LEVODOPA; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BARNACLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AROMATIC-L-AMINO-ACID DECARBOXYLASES; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THORACICA; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMPHITRITE; ANIMALIA; BALANUS AMPHITRITE; CYPRIS; INVERTEBRATA; THORACICA;

EID: 0035109826     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169X.2001.00552.x     Document Type: Article

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