Article
Cloning of the alphaA-crystallin genes of a blind cave form and the epigean form of Astyanax fasciatus: a comparative analysis of structure, expression and evolutionary conservation.
Gene - 31 Aug 1998
Behrens M, Wilkens H, Schmale H
Abstract excerpt
In the present study we have analyzed the integrity and expression of the alphaA-crystallin gene, that codes for a major structural component of the lens, in a blind cave form of the teleostean fish, Astyanax fasciatus. This is the first alphaA-crystallin gene cloned from a teleostean fish. Seque...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blindness
- Cloning, Molecular
- Conserved Sequence
- Crystallins
- Evolution, Molecular
- Exons
- Fishes
- Genes
- Lens, Crystalline
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- RNA, Messenger
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid