Ovis aries POU1F1 gene: Cloning, characterization and polymorphism analysis

Genetica

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 303-314

  Bastos, Estela ^a   Santos, Ingrid ^b,e   Parmentier, Isabelle ^c   Castrillo, José Luis ^d   Cravador, Alfredo ^e   Guedes Pinto, Henrique ^a   Renaville, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b Instituto Nacional de Investigacao Agraria e das Pescas   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Gene cloning; Ovine; Polymorphism; POU1F1; Sequencing

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PORTUGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PORTUGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33646458098     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10709-005-0034-6     Document Type: Article

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