The vasa locus in zebrafish: Multiple RGG boxes from intragenic duplications

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-54

  Bártfai, Richárd ^a   Orbán, László ^a,b  

^a TEMASEK LIFE SCIENCES LABORATORY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; DDX4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; RNA; RNA HELICASE; VASA PROTEIN, ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EXON; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; METAZOON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; RGG BOX; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; VASA GENE; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

DANIO RERIO; METAZOA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA; RNA HELICASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 0037270951     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/104454903321112497     Document Type: Article

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