Molecular cloning and characterization of the clock gene period2 in the testis of lizard Podarcis sicula and its expression during seasonal reproductive cycle

Gene

Volumn 363, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 105-112

  Della Ragione, Floriana ^a,b   Comitato, Raffaella ^b   Angelini, Francesco ^b   D'Esposito, Maurizio ^a   Cardone, Anna ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms; Comparative genomics; Quantitative expression; Reptilians; Warm blooded species

Indexed keywords

PER2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART; KIDNEY; LIVER; LIZARD; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; LIZARDS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PODARCIS SICULA; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 28044446584     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.08.018     Document Type: Article

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