Ecdysone and retinoid-X receptors of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus: Cloning and their expression patterns in eyestalks and Y-organs during the molt cycle

Gene

Volumn 527, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 139-153

  Techa, Sirinart ^a   Chung, J Sook ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecdysone Receptor; Eyestalk; Isoforms; Retinoid X Receptor; Y organs

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ECDYSONE; ECDYSTEROID; RETINOID X RECEPTOR;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AA; ACTIVATION FUNCTION-1; ACTIVATION FUNCTION-2; AF1; AF2; AK; AMINO ACID; ARGININE KINASE; C(4); CARAPACE WIDTH; CHH; CPE; CRUSTACEAN HYPERGLYCEMIC HORMONE; CW; CYTOPLASMIC POLYADENYLATION ELEMENT; D(0); D(2); DBD; DNA-BINDING DOMAIN; EARLY PREMOLT STAGE; ECD(S); ECD-RIA; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; ECDYSTEROID(S); ECDYSTEROID-RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; ECDYSTEROIDS; ECR; EYESTALK; FARNESOID X RECEPTOR; FXR; HINGE REGION; HR; INTERMOLT STAGE; INTERNAL RIBOSOME ENTRY SITE; IRES; ISOFORMS; LATE PREMOLT STAGE; LBD; LIGAND-BINDING DOMAIN; MAJOR OPEN READING FRAME; MIH; MOLT-INHIBITING HORMONE; MORF; OPEN READING FRAME; ORF; RACE; RAPID AMPLIFICATION OF CDNA ENDS; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; RETINOID-X RECEPTOR; RXR; ULTRASPIRACLE; UNTRANSLATED REGION; UORF; UPSTREAM OPEN READING FRAME; USP; UTR; Y-ORGANS;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRACHYURA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ECDYSTEROIDS; EYE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLTING; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RETINOID X RECEPTORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTHROPODA; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; CRUSTACEA;

EID: 84881258896     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.05.035     Document Type: Article

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