Porcine relaxin, a 500 million-year-old hormone? The tunicate Ciona intestinalis has porcine relaxin

FASEB Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1269-1275

  Georges, Danielle ^b   Schwabe, Christian ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

DNA polymerase; Genomic potential hypothesis; Relaxin coding region

Indexed keywords

BOMBYXIN; INSULIN; RELAXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOSSIL; GENOME; HORMONE DETERMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SILKWORM;

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; BOMBYX MORI; CETACEA; CHORDATA; CIONA INTESTINALIS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; UROCHORDATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032995293     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.13.10.1269     Document Type: Article

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