The zebra finch neuropeptidome: Prediction, detection and expression

BMC Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Xie, Fang ^a   London, Sarah E ^a   Southey, Bruce R ^a   Annangudi, Suresh P ^a   Amare, Andinet ^a   Rodriguez Zas, Sandra L ^a   Clayton, David F ^a,b   Sweedler, Jonathan V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

NEUROPEPTIDE; PEPTIDE HORMONE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; FINCH; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEARNING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEOMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FINCHES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LEARNING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE HORMONES; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 77950484672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-28     Document Type: Article

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