Identification of distant Agouti-like sequences and re-evaluation of the evolutionary history of the agouti-related peptide (AgRP)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Västermark, Åke ^a   Krishnan, Arunkumar ^a   Houle, Michael E ^b   Fredriksson, Robert ^a   Cerdá Reverter, José Miguel ^c   Schiöth, Helgi B ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^c CSIC Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre de la Sal IATS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; AMINO ACID; CYTOSINE;

AGOUTI RELATED PEPTIDE GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTARCTIC TOOTHFISH; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ASIP GENE; CARP; CATFISH; CICHLID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COD; EXON; FISH; FUNGUS; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; INTRON; LOBE FINNED FISH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF; RAINBOW SMELT; SALMON; SEA BREAM; SEABASS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNTENY; TELEOST; TILAPIA; TROUT; VERTEBRATE;

AGOUTI SIGNALING PROTEIN; AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN; ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOFTWARE;

AGOUTI; ARCHOSARGUS RHOMBOIDALIS; ARRIPIS TRUTTA; ARTHROPODA; CICHLIDAE; CROSSOPTERYGII; CYPRINUS CARPIO; FUNGI; ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS; OSMERUS; TELEOSTEI; TILAPIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84863995914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040982     Document Type: Article

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