Identification, localization, and regulation of passerine GnRH-I messenger RNA

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 81-87

  Ubuka, Takayoshi ^a   Bentley, George E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN 1; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REGULATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FINCH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; FINCHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 67651053191     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/JOE-08-0508     Document Type: Article

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