Mammalian mesotocin: cDNA sequence and expression of an oxytocin-like gene in a macropodid marsupial, the tammar wallaby

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 187-199

  Parry, Laura J ^a   Bathgate, Ross A D ^b   Ivell, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lactation; Marsupial; Mesotocin; Neuropeptides; Oxytocin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOLEUCINE; ISOTOCIN; LEUCINE; MESOTOCIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPHYSIN; NONAPEPTIDE; OXYTOCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MALE; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033943944     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.2000.7464     Document Type: Article

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