Structural and functional characterizations of an Activin type II receptor orthologue from the pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas

Gene

Volumn 436, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 101-107

  Le Quéré, Hervé ^a   Herpin, Amaury ^c   Huvet, Arnaud ^b   Lelong, Christophe ^a   Favrel, Pascal ^a  

^a Biology and Innovative Therapeutics for Ovarian Cancers group   (France)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activin receptor; Development; Lophotrochozoa; Mollusc; Nervous tissues

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NERVE GROWTH; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; OYSTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALIA; CRASSOSTREA GIGAS; DANIO RERIO; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; MOLLUSCA; OSTREIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 62549083829     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2009.01.010     Document Type: Article

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