afp-1: A gene encoding multiple transcripts of a new class of FMRFamide-like neuropeptides in the nematode Ascaris suum

Peptides

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 929-935

  Edison, Authur S ^a,b   Messinger, Lynn A ^a   Stretton, Antony O W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; FMRFamide like; Multiple transcripts; Nematode; Neuropeptide; Untranslated region

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCARIS SUUM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ASCARIS SUUM; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, HELMINTH; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FMRFAMIDE; GENES, HELMINTH; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ASCARIS SUUM;

EID: 0030723583     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(97)00047-8     Document Type: Article

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