Unique features of Myf-5 in turtles: Nucleotide deletion, alternative splicing, and unusual expression pattern

Evolution and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 415-423

  Ohya, Yoshie Kawashima ^a   Usuda, Ryo ^a   Kuraku, Shigehiro ^a   Nagashima, Hiroshi ^a   Kuratani, Shigeru ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MYOGENIC FACTOR 5;

EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; MUSCLE; PROTEIN; SHELL; TURTLE; VERTEBRATE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CHICK EMBRYO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RIBOSOMAL FRAMESHIFTING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TURTLE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHICK EMBRYO; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FRAMESHIFTING, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTOR 5; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE DELETION; TURTLES;

AMNIOTA; ANIMALIA; PELODISCUS SINENSIS; TESTUDINES; TRIONYCHIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33747606486     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2006.00115.x     Document Type: Article

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