Ecdysone receptor homologs from mollusks, leeches and a polychaete worm

FEBS Letters

Volumn 584, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 4458-4462

  Laguerre, Michel ^a   Veenstra, Jan A ^b  

^a INSTITUT EUROPÉEN DE CHIMIE ET BIOLOGIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Capitella teleta; Ecdysone receptor; Helobdella robusta; Imposex; Lottia gigantea

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE RECEPTOR;

APLYSIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENETIC CODE; LEECH; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYCHAETA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SQUID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HUMANS; LEECHES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSCA; PHYLOGENY; POLYCHAETA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, STEROID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

APLYSIA CALIFORNICA; ARTHROPODA; CAPITELLA; EUPRYMNA SCOLOPES; HELOBDELLA ROBUSTA; HIRUDINIDA; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; LOTTIA GIGANTEA; MOLLUSCA; NEMATODA; POLYCHAETA; SEPIOLIDAE;

EID: 78049258404     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2010.10.004     Document Type: Article

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