Evolution of GnRH ligands and receptors in gnathostomata

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 272-283

  Guilgur, Leonardo G ^a   Moncaut, Natalia P ^b   Canário, Adelino V M ^b   Somoza, Gustavo M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Evolution; GnRH; GnRH receptors; Vertebrates

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; RHODOPSIN;

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOREBRAIN; GENE DUPLICATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TAXONOMY; TELEOST; THELAZIA; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

GNATHOSTOMATA (VERTEBRATE); INVERTEBRATA; TELEOST FISH; TETRAPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33745469477     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2006.02.016     Document Type: Review

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