Molecular cloning, gene structure, molecular evolution and expression analyses of thyrotropin-releasing hormone receptors from medaka (Oryzias latipes)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 374-380

  Mekuchi, Miyuki ^a   Saito, Yuichi ^a,b   Aoki, Yasuhiro ^a,b   Masuda, Tomohiro ^a   Iigo, Masayuki ^a,b   Yanagisawa, Tadashi ^a,b  

^a UTSUNOMIYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Medaka (Oryzias latipes); RT PCR; Teleosts; Thyrotropin releasing hormone; Thyrotropin releasing hormone receptor

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PROTIRELIN RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORYZIAS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRHR1A GENE; TRHR1B GENE; TRHR2 GENE; TRHR3 GENE;

EID: 78650679296     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.10.013     Document Type: Article

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