The ancestry of the prolactin-releasing hormone precursor

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1040, Issue , 2005, Pages 368-370

  Lagerstrom M C ^a   Fredriksson, R ^a   Bjarnadottir, T K ^a   Schiöth, Helgi B ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evolution; Food intake; Hormone; Prolactin releasing peptide

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; HORMONE PRECURSOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROLACTIN RELEASING FACTOR; RHODOPSIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; FOOD INTAKE; HOX GENE; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; LATERAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PARALOGY; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SYNTENY; TETRAPLOIDY; ZEBRA FISH;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 22144453203     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1327.064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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