A Segmentation Gene in Tribolium Produces a Polycistronic mRNA that Codes for Multiple Conserved Peptides

Cell

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 559-569

  Savard, Joël ^a   Marques Souza, Henrique ^a   Aranda, Manuel ^a   Tautz, Diethard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEETLE; EMBRYO; EUKARYOTE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; LEG; MALE; MLPT GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRIBOLIUM;

COLEOPTERA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE);

EID: 33746736922     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2006.05.053     Document Type: Article

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