Identification of Eya3 and TAC1 as Long-Day Signals in the Sheep Pituitary

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 829-835

  Dupré, Sandrine M ^a   Miedzinska, Katarzyna ^b   Duval, Chloe V ^a   Yu, Le ^c   Goodman, Robert L ^d   Lincoln, Gerald A ^e   Davis, Julian R E ^a   McNeilly, Alan S ^b   Burt, David D ^c   Loudon, Andrew S I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

SIGNALING

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROLACTIN; TACHYKININ; TACHYKININ RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYPOPHYSIS; PERIODICITY; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGULATOR GENE; SEASON; SECRETION; SHEEP; TSH SECRETING CELL;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REGULATOR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PERIODICITY; PHOTOPERIOD; PITUITARY GLAND; PROLACTIN; RECEPTORS, TACHYKININ; RNA, MESSENGER; SEASONS; SHEEP; TACHYKININS; THYROTROPHS;

AVES; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77953131343     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.02.066     Document Type: Article

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