Molecular cloning and characterization of follistatin in the gilthead sea bream, Sparus aurata

Molecular Biology Reports

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 501-511

  Funkenstein, Bruria ^a   Rebhan, Yanai ^a   Skopal, Tal ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fish; Follistatin; Gene expression; Myostatin; Sparus aurata

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FOLLISTATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOSTATIN; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; SEA BREAM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARCHOSARGUS RHOMBOIDALIS; MAMMALIA; SPARUS AURATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 60549118191     PISSN: 03014851     EISSN: 15734978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11033-007-9207-y     Document Type: Article

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