Identification of paralogous genes of firefly luciferase in the Japanese firefly, Luciola cruciata

Gene

Volumn 368, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 53-60

  Oba, Yuichi ^a   Sato, Mitsunori ^a   Ohta, Yuichiro ^a   Inouye, Satoshi ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHISSO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bioluminescence; CG6178; Evolution; Fatty acyl CoA synthetase; Gene duplication

Indexed keywords

FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; GENE PRODUCT; LONG CHAIN FATTY ACID COENZYME A LIGASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FIREFLY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; LARVA; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COENZYME A LIGASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FIREFLIES; GENE DUPLICATION; JAPAN; LARVA; LUCIFERASES; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; LUCIOLA CRUCIATA;

EID: 33344472674     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2005.10.023     Document Type: Article

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