Regionally specific occurrence of an active sodefrin variant in the red-bellied newt

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1040, Issue , 2005, Pages 351-353

  Iwata, Takeo ^a   Ishizuka, Yoko ^a   Nakada, Tomoaki ^a   Toyoda, Fumiyo ^b   Yamamoto, Kazutoshi ^a   Conlon, John M ^c   Kikuyama, Sakae ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Female attracting pheromone; processing; Sodefrin; Variant

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PHEROMONE; SODEFRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CLOACA; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HORMONE RELEASE; JAPAN; MALE; NEWT; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

TARICHA RIVULARIS;

EID: 22144487700     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1327.059     Document Type: Conference Paper

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