Differences in the skin peptides of the male and female Australian tree frog Litoria splendida: The discovery of the aquatic male sex pheromone splendipherin, together with Phe8 caerulein and a new antibiotic peptide caerin 1.10

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 269-275

  Wabnitz, Paul A ^a   Bowie, John H ^a   Tyler, Michael J ^a   Wallace, John C ^a   Smith, Ben P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antibiotic peptides; Male sex pheromone; Neuropeptide; Splendipherin

Indexed keywords

CERULETIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE; PHEROMONE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; FEMALE; FROG; HIBERNATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN SECRETION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THERMOREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BUFONIDAE; CAERULEIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEUROPEPTIDES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHEROMONES; SEASONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0033985653     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01010.x     Document Type: Article

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