The ubiquity of the insulin superfamily across the eukaryotes detected using a bioinformatics approach

OMICS A Journal of Integrative Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 439-447

  Piñero González, Janet ^a   González Pérez, Abel ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA   (Cuba)

^b National Bioinformatics Center   (Cuba)

^c Barcelona Biomedical Research Park   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; RELAXIN; SOMATOMEDIN;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; DISULFIDE BOND; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME; HUMANS; INSULIN; INVERTEBRATES; PEPTIDES; VERTEBRATES;

EUKARYOTA; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79961214923     PISSN: 15362310     EISSN: 15578100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/omi.2010.0141     Document Type: Article

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