Structure and organization of the isotocin and vasotocin genes from teleosts

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 395, Issue , 1996, Pages 629-638

  Venkatesh, B ^a   Brenner, S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; ISOTOCIN; OXYTOCIN DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELEOST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES, POISONOUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYTOCIN; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VASOTOCIN;

MAMMALIA; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TELEOSTEI; TETRAODONTIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0029990035     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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