Molecular evolution of the leptin exon 3 in some species of the family Canidae

Genetics Selection Evolution

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 573-580

  Chmurzynska, Agata ^a   Zajac, Magdalena ^a,b   Switonski, Marek ^a  

^a POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Canidae; Leptin; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

GENE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CARNIVORA; CATTLE; DOG; EXON; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; CATTLE; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; LEPTIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CARNIVORA; LAGOPUS; MAMMALIA; NYCTEREUTES; NYCTEREUTES PROCYONOIDES PROCYONOIDES; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0141761282     PISSN: 0999193X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/gse:2003040     Document Type: Article

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