Expression of alternatively spliced transcripts for a myostatin-like protein in the blackback land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 423-430

  Covi, Joseph A ^a   Kim, Hyun Woo ^a   Mykles, Donald L ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropoda; Crustacea; GDF 8; mRNA; Muscle atrophy; Myostatin; Skeletal muscle; Tissue expression

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; MYOSTATIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CRAB; CRUSTACEA; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GILL; GONAD; HEART MUSCLE; HEPATOPANCREAS; MAMMAL; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ARTHROPODA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; CRUSTACEA; GECARCINIDAE; GECARCINUS LATERALIS; MAMMALIA; TELEOSTEI; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 45849129399     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.04.608     Document Type: Article

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