The emergence and loss of gonadotropin-releasing hormone in protostomes: Orthology, phylogeny, structure, and function

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 798-805

  Tsai, Pei San ^a   Zhang, Lihong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Annelid; Ecdysozoan; Evolution; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Lophotrochozoan; Mollusks; Protostomes

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHORDATA; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOSTOMIAN; REPRODUCTION; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; INVERTEBRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN PRECURSORS;

ANNELIDA; CHORDATA; ECDYSOZOA; LOPHOTROCHOZOA; MOLLUSCA; PROTOSTOMIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 55549120527     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.070185     Document Type: Short Survey

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