Marsupial relaxin: Complementary deoxyribonucleic acid sequence and gene expression in the female and male tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 119-127

  Parry, Laura J ^a,b   Rust, Werner ^a   Ivell, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RELAXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; DOGFISH; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MACROPODIDAE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RELAXIN; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; MACROPUS EUGENII; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030920535     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.1.119     Document Type: Article

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