The genome of the nematode Pristionchus pacificus encodes putative homologs of RXR/Usp and EcR

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 11-17

  Parihar, Manish ^a   Minton, Russell L ^a   Flowers, Sharita ^a   Holloway, Anna ^a   Morehead, Benjamin E ^a   Paille, Julianne ^a   Gissendanner, Chris R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecdysone receptor; EcR; Molting; NR1H; NR2B; Pristionchus pacificus; RXR; Usp

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN ECR; PROTEIN RXR USP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLTING; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISTIONCHUS PACIFICUS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77952546309     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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