Honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) mrjp gene family: Computational analysis of putative promoters and genomic structure of mrjp1, the gene coding for the most abundant protein of larval food

Gene

Volumn 303, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 165-175

  Malecová, Barbora ^a,b   Ramser, Juliane ^b,c   O'Brien, John K ^b,d   Janitz, Michal ^b   Júdová, Jana ^a   Lehrach, Hans ^b   Šimúth, Jozef ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Antisense transcript; Genomic structure; Promoter; Royal jelly; Transcription factor; Yellow protein

Indexed keywords

JUVENILE HORMONE; ROYAL JELLY; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; FEMALE; FOOD; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HAPLOIDY; HONEYBEE; LARVA; MRJP GENE; MRJP1 GENE; MRJP2 GENE; MRJP3 GENE; MRJP4 GENE; MRJP5 GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0037448609     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(02)01174-5     Document Type: Article

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