Single exon structures of the oxytocin/vasopressin superfamily peptides of octopus

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 309, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 743-748

  Kanda, Atsuhiro ^a   Takuwa Kuroda, Kyoko ^a   Iwakoshi Ukena, Eiko ^a   Minakata, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a SUNTORY LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cephalotocin gene; Evolutionary process; Genome; Lost intron; Mollusks; Octopressin gene; Octopus vulgaris; Oxytocin vasopressin superfamily; Single copy; Single exon

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOTOCIN; FELYPRESSIN; NEUROPHYSIN; OXYTOCIN; PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRON; LYMNAEA; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCTOPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

CEPHALOPODA; GASTROPODA; LYMNAEA; LYMNAEA STAGNALIS; LYMNAEIDAE; MOLLUSCA; OCTOPUS; OCTOPUS VULGARIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141453436     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2003.08.061     Document Type: Article

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