A novel method for screening a vertebrate transcriptome for genes involved in carotenoid binding and metabolism

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 149-159

  Pointer, M A ^a,b   Prager, M ^a,c   Andersson, S ^c   Mundy, N I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carotenoids; Euplectes; Expression library; Transcriptome screening

Indexed keywords

AVIAN PROTEIN; CAROTENOID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENTATION; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; CAROTENOIDS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; PIGMENTATION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUPLECTES; EUPLECTES ORIX; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 83955161714     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.03069.x     Document Type: Article

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