Cloning of urea transporters from the kidneys of two batoid elasmobranchs: Evidence for a common elasmobranch urea transporter isoform

Marine Biology

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1173-1179

  Janech, Michael G ^a,b   Gefroh, Holly A ^a,e   Cwengros, Emily E ^a,f   Sulikowski, James A ^d,g   Ploth, David W ^a,b,c   Fitzgibbon, Wayne R ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c RALPH H JOHNSON VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^e Qualyst Inc   (United States)

^f ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PROTEIN; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UREA;

BATOIDEA; CHONDRICHTHYES; DASYATIDAE; DASYATIS SABINA; DASYATIS SAY; ELASMOBRANCHII; LEUCORAJA OCELLATA; MYLIOBATIFORM; RAJIFORMES; SQUALIDAE; SQUALIFORMES; SQUALUS; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS;

EID: 39649099949     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-007-0889-4     Document Type: Article

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