An intron-less βγ-crystallin-type gene from the sponge Geodia cydonium

Gene

Volumn 299, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 79-82

  Di Maro, Antimo ^a   Pizzo, Elio ^b   Cubellis, Maria Vittoria ^b   D'Alessio, Giuseppe ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Introns early; Introns late; Porifera; Sponges

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIN; NUCLEOTIDE; BETA CRYSTALLIN; CRYSTALLIN, GAMMAB; DNA; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN;

ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; INTRON; METAZOON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPONGE (PORIFERA); ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

GEODIA; GEODIA CYDONIUM; METAZOA; PORIFERA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-CRYSTALLINS; CRYSTALLINS; DNA; GAMMA-CRYSTALLINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORIFERA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0037120655     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(02)01014-4     Document Type: Article

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