A toxin-like gene in rainbow trout: Cloning, expression, and gene organization

Toxicon

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1002-1009

  Georgaka, Eleftheria ^a,b   Nastopoulos, Vassilios ^b   Eleftheriou, Sofia ^a   Zarkadis, Ioannis K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cloning; Gene organization; Ly 6 family; Phylogenetic analysis; Rainbow trout; Toxin 1

Indexed keywords

NEUROTOXIN; TOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; INTRON; LIVER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAINBOW TROUT; SPLEEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXONS; FISH PROTEINS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROTOXINS; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; SALMONIDAE; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 34247874571     PISSN: 00410101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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