Characterization and tissue distribution of multiple agouti-family genes in pufferfish, Takifugu rubripes

Peptides

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 3165-3175

  Kurokawa, Tadahide ^a   Murashita, Koji ^a   Uji, Susumu ^a  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agouti; AGRP; mRNA; Multiple gene; Takifugu; Tissue distribution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN;

AGOUTI SIGNALING PROTEIN; AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; TAKIFUGU;

AGOUTI; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TELEOSTEI; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 33750934534     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2006.09.013     Document Type: Article

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