Cloning of a metallothionein gene and characterization of two other cDNA sequences in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas (CgMT1)

Aquatic Toxicology

Volumn 55, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 35-47

  Tanguy, Arnaud ^a   Mura, Catherine ^b   Moraga, Dario ^a  

^a Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

Detoxification; Expression; Gene sequence; Metallothionein; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEAVY METAL; METALLOTHIONEIN;

GENE; METALLOTHIONEIN; TOXICOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OYSTER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSTREIDAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BIVALVIA; CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; MOLLUSCA; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 0035501764     PISSN: 0166445X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-445X(01)00160-6     Document Type: Article

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