Neuropeptide families: Evolutionary perspectives

Regulatory Peptides

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-33

  Hoyle, Charles H V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evolution; Neuropeptides; Phylogeny; Sequence homologies

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; GLUCAGON; ISOTOCIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPHYSIN; OXYTOCIN; TACHYKININ; VASOPRESSIN; VASOPRESSIN DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; OXYTOCIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TACHYKININS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0032472216     PISSN: 01670115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-0115(97)01073-2     Document Type: Review

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