Cloning and expression of a novel cDNA encoding shell coat protein, cp4, from the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-147

  Cui, Shuliang ^a   Selwood, Lynne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

crystallin; Enolase; Glycoprotein; Marsupial; Preimplantation development; Uterine secretion

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CRYSTALLIN; ENOLASE; PROTEIN; SHELL COAT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRUSHTAIL POSSUM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EGG SHELL; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; LIVER; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OVIDUCT; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UTERUS; ZYGOTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EGG PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPOSSUMS;

ALOPIAS; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; PHALANGERIDAE; TRICHOSURUS; TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA;

EID: 0038302751     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.10296     Document Type: Article

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