Cloning of complimentary deoxyribonucleic acid encoding follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone β subunit precursor molecules in Reeves's turtle (Geoclemys reevesii) and Japanese grass lizard (Takydromus tachydromoides)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 465-473

  Aizawa, Youichi ^a   Ishii, Susumu ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

cDNA; FSH; LH; Molecular evolution; Pituitary glycoprotein hormone; Reptiles

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FOLLITROPIN; HORMONE PRECURSOR; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BULLFROG; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA LIBRARY; FEMALE; FOWL; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOPHYSIS; LIZARD; MALE; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; TURTLE;

GEOCLEMYS REEVESII; TAKYDROMUS TACHYDROMOIDES;

EID: 0038042467     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-6480(03)00103-5     Document Type: Article

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