Pyrokinin neuropeptides in a crustacean: Isolation and identification in the white shrimp Penaeus vannamei

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 268, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 149-154

  Torfs, Pieter ^a   Nieto, Julia ^a,b   Cerstiaens, Anja ^a   Boon, Doris ^a   Baggerman, Geert ^a   Poulos, Constantine ^c   Waelkens, Etienne ^a   Derua, Rita ^a   Calderón, Jorge ^b   De Loof, Arnold ^a   Schoofs, Liliane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ESCUELA SUPERIOR POLITÉCNICA DEL LITORAL   (Ecuador)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Crustacea; Neuropeptide; Pyrokinin; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; PHEROMONE; PYROKININ; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COURTSHIP; CRUSTACEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PENAEIDAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SHELLFISH; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

ANIMALIA; ASTACUS; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); HEXAPODA; LEPTODACTYLUS; LEUCOPHAEA MADERAE; LITOPENAEUS VANNAMEI; PENAEUS; PONTASTACUS LEPTODACTYLUS;

EID: 0035165098     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.2001.01858.x     Document Type: Article

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