Tubulin superfamily genes in Tribolium castaneum and the use of a Tubulin promoter to drive transgene expression

Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 749-755

  Siebert, Kendra S ^a   Lorenzen, Marcé D ^b   Brown, Susan J ^a   Park, Yoonseong ^a   Beeman, Richard W ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

EGFP; PiggyBac; Promoter; Transgene; Tribolium; Tubulin; Vermilion

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE; TRIBOLIUM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSGENES; TRIBOLIUM; TUBULIN;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; TRIBOLIUM (BEETLE); TRIBOLIUM CASTANEUM;

EID: 46849106525     PISSN: 09651748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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