Cloning, characterization and cadmium inducibility of metallothionein in the testes of the mudskipper Boleophthalmus pectinirostris

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Volumn 119, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-8

  Han, Ying Li ^a   Sheng, Zhang ^a   Liu, Guo Di ^a   Long, Ling Li ^a   Wang, You Fa ^a   Yang, Wan Xi ^b   Zhu, Jun Quan ^a  

^a NINGBO UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Boleophthalmus pectinirostris; Cadimium; Metallothionein; Testes

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN; RNA; RNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; WATER POLLUTANT;

CADMIUM; CLONE; FISH; METALLOTHIONEIN; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; TESTOSTERONE; TOXICITY;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BOLEOPHTHALMUS PECTINIROSTRIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOTOXICITY; FISH; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; TOXICITY; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANIMALIA; BOLEOPHTHALMUS PECTINIROSTRIS; PERIOPHTHALMUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METALLOTHIONEIN; MODELS, ANIMAL; RNA; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84929471968     PISSN: 01476513     EISSN: 10902414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2015.04.055     Document Type: Article

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