Man and the Chimaera: Selective versus Neutral Oxytocin Evolution

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 395, Issue , 1996, Pages 615-627

  Acher, R ^a   Chauvet, J ^a   Chauvet, M T ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; AVES; CERATODONTIDAE; CHIMAERA; CHIMAERA MONSTROSA; CHONDRICHTHYES; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; DIPNOI; EUTELEOSTOMI; EUTHERIA; HOLOCEPHALI; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; OSTEICHTHYES; PISCES; REPTILIA; SCYLIORHINUS CANICULA; SELACHII; SPINY; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS; VERTEBRATA;

ARGIPRESSIN; ARGIPRESTOCIN; ISOTOCIN; MESOTOCIN; OXYTOCIN DERIVATIVE;

DOGFISH; EVOLUTION; FISH; HORMONE DETERMINATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHIMERA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPHYSINS; OXYTOCIN; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0029874469     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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