The molecular evolution of the allatostatin precursor in cockroaches

Peptides

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 11-22

  Bellés, Xavier ^a   Graham, Laurie A ^b   Bendenab, William G ^b   Ding, Qi ^d   Edwards, John P ^c   Weaver, Robert J ^c   Tobe, Stephen S ^d  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DEFRA   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allatostatin; Cockroach; Neuropeptide; Peptide evolution; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

ALLATOSTATIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COCKROACH; CORPUS ALLATUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; HORMONE INHIBITION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COCKROACHES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032923818     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-9781(98)00155-7     Document Type: Article

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