Characterization of the Gene BmEm4, a homologue of Drosophila E(spl)m4, fromthe Silkworm, Bombyx mori

Comparative and Functional Genomics

Volumn 2009, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zeng, Fenghui ^a,b   Xie, Hongxia ^a   Nie, Zuoming ^a,b   Chen, Jian ^a,b   Lv, Zhengbing ^a,b   Chen, Jianqing ^a,b   Wang, Dan ^a,b   Liu, Lili ^a,b   Yu, Wei ^a,b   Sheng, Qing ^a,b   Wu, Xiangfu ^a,b   Zhang, Yaozhou ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN BMEM4; PROTEIN E(SPL)M4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 70449706101     PISSN: 15316912     EISSN: 15326268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/947490     Document Type: Article

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