Emergence of a brain-expressed variant melanin-concentrating hormone gene during higher primate evolution: A gene 'in search of a function'

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 196-214

  Viale, Agnès ^a   Ortola, Christine ^a   Richard, Florence ^b   Vernier, Philippe ^a   Presse, Françoise ^a   Schilling, Sabrina ^a   Dutrillaux, Bernard ^c   Nahon, Jean Louis ^a,d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^c INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Hominoidea; Human brain expressed gene; Human chromosome 5; MCH; Primate evolution; Variant MCH gene

Indexed keywords

MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHROMOSOME 5P; CHROMOSOME 5Q; DNA TRANSPOSITION; EVOLUTION; FETUS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIMATE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANTHROPOIDEA; HOMINIDAE; HOMINOIDEA; HYLOBATIDAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 0031935103     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025915     Document Type: Article

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