FIG. 1.

Striped bass MsNramp nucleotide and MsNramp amino acid sequences (GenBank accession number AY008746). Included are the 183-bp 5′ UTR, the 1,665-bp open reading frame, and the 1,682-bp 3′ UTR. The numbers on the right indicate nucleotide and amino acid positions. The brackets indicate the ATG translation start codon (position 184) and the TAG termination codon (position 1848). Single-letter amino acid designations are located under the second nucleotide of the corresponding codons. The arrows indicate primer binding (see Table 1 and 2 for sequences). The motifs in boxes are potential microsatellite tandem repeats, the shaded areas indicate polyadenylation signals, and the double box indicates the poly(dA) tail.