Molecular cloning of Plk1 and Nek2 and their expression in mature gonads of the teleost fish Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 989-1001

  Matsuoka, Yoh ^a,b   Kobayashi, Tohru ^a,c   Kihara, Kazunori ^b   Nagahama, Yoshitaka ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Meiosis; NIMA related kinase 2; Oogenesis; Polo like kinase 1; Spermatogenesis; Tilapia

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NIMA PROTEIN KINASE; ONCOPROTEIN; POLO LIKE KINASE 1; POLO-LIKE KINASE 1; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENITAL SYSTEM; GONAD; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPERMATOCYTE; TELEOST; TESTIS; TILAPIA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CICHLID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OOCYTE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; TELEOSTEI; TILAPIA; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CICHLIDS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; OVARY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 42949093135     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20843     Document Type: Article

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