The Evolution and Diversity of SALMFamide Neuropeptides

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Elphick, Maurice R ^a   Achhala, Sufyan ^a   Martynyuk, Natalia ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SERYLALANYLLEUCYLMETHIONYLPHENYLALANYLAMIDE; SERYLALANYLLEUCYLMETHIONYLPHENYLALANYLAMIDE F TYPE PEPTIDE; SERYLALANYLLEUCYLMETHIONYLPHENYLALANYLAMIDE L TYPE PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOSTICHOPUS JAPONICUS; ARTICLE; ASTERIAS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ECHINODERM; ECHINOIDEA; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOLOTHUROIDEA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATIRIA MINIATA; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SALMFAMIDE F TYPE GENE; SALMFAMIDE GENE; SALMFAMIDE L TYPE GENE; SEA CUCUMBER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMIC RANK; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEA CUCUMBERS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STARFISH;

EID: 84874918531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059076     Document Type: Article

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