Structure, expression, and evolution of the variant MCH gene in primates

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 839, Issue , 1998, Pages 214-218

  Viale, Agnès ^a   Ortola, Christine ^a   Vernier, Philippe ^b   Breton, Christophe ^a   Presse, Françoise ^a   Nahon, Jean Louis ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHARMACOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE;

CHROMOSOME 5P; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PSEUDOGENE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

PRIMATES;

EID: 0032524577     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10762.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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