Genomic structure and transcript variants of the bovine DAZL gene

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 65-71

  Liu, W S ^a   Wang, A ^a   Uno, Y ^b,c   Galitz, D ^b   Beattie, C W ^a,d   Ponce De Leon F A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELETED IN AZOOSPERMIA LIKE PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTRON; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PSEUDOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 33846690671     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000097419     Document Type: Article

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