Aromatase cytochrome P450: Cloning, intron variation, and ontogeny of gene expression in southern flounder (Paralichthys lethostigma)

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology

Volumn 303, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 643-656

  Luckenbach, John Adam ^a   Early, Lea Ware ^a   Rowe, Ashlee H ^a   Borski, Russell John ^a   Daniels, Harry V ^a   Godwin, John ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARALICHTHYS LETHOSTIGMA; PISCES; PLEURONECTIFORMES; PLEURONECTOIDEI; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

AROMATASE; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; INTRON; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FLOUNDER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; INTRONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, MESSENGER; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 24344469710     PISSN: 15488969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.a.198     Document Type: Article

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