Identification and analysis of a prepro-chicken gonadotropin releasing hormone II (preprocGnRH-II) precursor in the Asian seabass, Lates calcarifer, based on an EST-based assessment of its brain transcriptome

Gene

Volumn 411, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 77-86

  Tan, Sik Loo ^a   Mohd Adnan, Adura ^a   Mohd Yusof, Nurul Yuziana ^a   Forstner, Michael R J ^b   Wan, Kiew Lian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Expression profile; Neurohormone; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

HORMONE PRECURSOR; PREPRO CHICKEN GONADOTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE II; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASIAN SEA BASS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FISH; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHICKENS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERCIFORMES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RNA PRECURSORS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EUTELEOSTEI; LATES CALCARIFER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 39649108840     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.01.008     Document Type: Article

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