A novel neuropeptide precursor gene is expressed in the terrestrial snail central nervous system by a group of neurons that control mating behavior

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 183-197

  Poteryaev, Dmitry A ^a   Zakharov, Igor S ^b   Balaban, Pavel M ^b   Belyavsky, Alexander V ^a  

^a ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

D amino acid residue; Mating behavior; Mollusc; Neuropeptide; Precursor

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATING; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SNAIL; STEM CELL; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELIX (SNAILS); MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031966279     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4695(199805)35:2<183::AID-NEU5>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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