Vitellogenin and its messenger RNA during ovarian development in the female blue crab, Callinectes sapidus: Gene expression, synthesis, transport, and cleavage

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 138-146

  Zmora, Nili ^a   Trant, John ^a   Chan, Siu Ming ^b   Chung, J Sook ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Behavior; Oocyte development; Ovary

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; VITELLOGENIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLUE CRAB; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SYNTHESIS; HEMOLYMPH; HEPATOPANCREAS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL MATURATION; VITELLOGENINS;

BRACHYURAN; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRUSTACEA;

EID: 34250855055     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.055483     Document Type: Article

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