Cryptochrome genes are highly expressed in the ovary of the African clawed frog, Xenopus tropicalis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Kubo, Yoko ^a   Takeuchi, Takahiro ^a   Okano, Keiko ^a   Okano, Toshiyuki ^a,b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOCHROME; MESSENGER RNA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SIGNALING PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; PER1 PROTEIN, XENOPUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ARNTL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; ESTRUS CYCLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; KIDNEY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLASSIFICATION; E BOX ELEMENT; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

MUS; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS TROPICALIS;

ANIMALS; ARNTL TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLOCK PROTEINS; CRYPTOCHROMES; E-BOX ELEMENTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OVARY; PERIOD CIRCADIAN PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 77949537384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009273     Document Type: Article

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