The ever-expanding neuropeptide gene families in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans

Parasitology

Volumn 131, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Li, C ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

flp; FMRFamide; Gene families; Insulin; Neuropeptides; nlp

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE RECEPTOR; PROTEIN DAF2; PROTEIN INS; PROTEIN NLP; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANCYLOSTOMA CANINUM; ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; HETERODERA GLYCINES; LOCOMOTION; MELOIDOGYNE ARENARIA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, HELMINTH; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEUROPEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANCYLOSTOMA CANINUM; ASCARIS SUUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HAEMONCHUS CONTORTUS; HETERODERA GLYCINES; MELOIDOGYNE ARENARIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 33645581009     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182005009376     Document Type: Review

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