Conservation of the egg-laying hormone neuropeptide and attractin pheromone in the spotted sea hare, Aplysia dactylomela

Peptides

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 394-401

  Cummins, Scott F ^a   Nuurai, Parinyaporn ^a,c   Nagle, Gregg T ^b   Degnan, Bernard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c BURAPHA UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Aplysia; Attractin; Egg laying hormone; Pheromone; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIN; EGG LAYING HORMONE; NEUROHORMONE; SEA WATER; TEMPTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL GANGLION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APLYSIA; APLYSIA BRASILIANA; APLYSIA DACTYLOMELA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; FEMALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; TEMPERATURE;

ANASPIDEA; APLYSIA; APLYSIA BRASILIANA; APLYSIA CALIFORNICA; APLYSIA DACTYLOMELA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 77049114260     PISSN: 01969781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.peptides.2009.10.010     Document Type: Article

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