Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH/AMH) in the European sea bass: Its gene structure, regulatory elements, and the expression of alternatively-spliced isoforms

Gene

Volumn 388, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 148-158

  Halm, S ^a   Rocha, A ^a   Miura, T ^b   Prat, F ^a   Zanuy, S ^a  

^a CSIC Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre de la Sal IATS   (Spain)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dicentrarchus labrax; M llerian inhibiting substance (MIS MIS); Promoter; Transcript variants; Transcription binding sites; Transforming growth factor family

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; ISOPROTEIN; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; NUCLEOTIDE; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EUROPEAN SEA BASS; EXON; FISH; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GONAD; INTRON; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VERTEBRATE;

5' FLANKING REGION; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASS; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLYCOPROTEINS; INTRONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TESTICULAR HORMONES;

AVES; DICENTRARCHUS LABRAX; MAMMALIA; PARALICHTHYS OLIVACEUS; SERRANIDAE; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33845880378     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2006.10.018     Document Type: Article

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