New selenoproteins identified in silico from the genome of Anopheles gambiae

Science in China, Series C: Life Sciences

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 251-257

  Jiang, Liang ^a,b   Liu, Qiong ^a   Chen, Ping ^c   Gao, ZhongHong ^c   Xu, HuiBi ^c  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF APPLIED CHEMISTRY   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Anopheles gambiae; Bioinformatics; Genome; Selenocysteine; Selenoprotein

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; SELENOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CODON; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CODON; GENOME; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; SELENOPROTEINS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE;

EID: 34247537967     PISSN: 10069305     EISSN: 18622798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-007-0011-7     Document Type: Article

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