Myostatin from the American lobster, Homarus americanus: Cloning and effects of molting on expression in skeletal muscles

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 328-337

  MacLea, Kyle S ^a   Covi, Joseph A ^a   Kim, Hyun Woo ^a   Chao, Erica ^a   Medler, Scott ^a   Chang, Ernest S ^b   Mykles, Donald L ^a  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Amino acid sequence; Arthropoda; CDNA cloning; Crustacea; DNA sequence; Ecdysteroid; Eyestalk ablation; Gene expression; Molting; MRNA; Myostatin; Skeletal muscle; Tissue distribution

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MYOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOMARUS AMERICANUS; LOBSTER; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUSCLE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ARTHROPODA; CRUSTACEA; HOMARUS AMERICANUS; INVERTEBRATA; LOBSTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77957280686     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2010.07.024     Document Type: Article

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