GnRH receptors in fish: Differences in structure-function relations between mammalian and non-mammalian GnRH receptors

Hormones And Their Receptors In Fish Reproduction

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 40-75

  Blomenröhr, Marion ^a   Goos, Henk ^a   Bogerd, Jan ^a   Eidne, Karin ^b   Willars, Gray ^c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1142/9789812569189_0002     Document Type: Chapter

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