The FREP gene family in the snail Biomphalaria glabrata: Additional members, and evidence consistent with alternative splicing and FREP retrosequences

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 175-187

  Zhang, Si Ming ^a   Loker, Eric S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Fibrinogen; Fibrinogen related proteins; Immunoglobulin superfamily; Mollusca; Retrosequences

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FIBRINOGEN; FIBRINOGEN RELATED PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EXON; HEMOLYMPH; HYPOTHESIS; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SNAIL;

BIOMPHALARIA GLABRATA; GASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 0037362058     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-305X(02)00091-5     Document Type: Article

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