Two spliced variants of insulin-like androgenic gland hormone gene in the Chinese shrimp, Fenneropenaeus chinensis

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 246-255

  Li, Shihao ^a,b   Li, Fuhua ^a   Sun, Zheng ^c   Xiang, Jianhai ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Androgenic gland hormone; Gene expression; Gene structure

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; CYSTEINE; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FENNEROPENAEUS CHINENSIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEPATOPANCREAS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSULIN LIKE ANDROGENIC GLAND HORMONE 1 GENE; INSULIN LIKE ANDROGENIC GLAND HORMONE 2 GENE; LARVA; MALE; NERVE CORD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84861673877     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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