Genomic organization of an avermectin receptor subunit from Haemonchus contortus and expression of its putative promoter region in Caenorhabditis elegans

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-274

  Liu, Jie ^a   Dent, Joseph A ^b   Beech, Robin N ^a   Prichard, Roger K ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptor primer; AP; EDTA; Ethylenediaminetetra acetate; Gene specific primer; GFP; GluCl; Glutamate gated chloride channel; Green fluorescence protein; GSP; Inhibitory postsynaptic potentials; IPSPS; Ivermectin; IVM; Macrocyclic lactones; MLs; MOX; Moxidectin; RACE

Indexed keywords

AVERMECTIN; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REPORTER GENE; TATA BOX;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' FLANKING REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ANTHELMINTICS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHLORIDE CHANNELS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON; DNA, HELMINTH; EXONS; GENES, HELMINTH; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HAEMONCHUS; INTRONS; IVERMECTIN; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; TATA BOX;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; NEMATODA;

EID: 1542345463     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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