The Pituitary Gland of the European Eel Reveals Massive Expression of Genes Involved in the Melanocortin System

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Ager Wick, Eirill ^a   Dirks, Ron P ^b   Burgerhout, Erik ^b,c   Nourizadeh Lillabadi, Rasoul ^a   de Wijze, Daniëlle L ^b,c   Spaink, Herman P ^c   van den Thillart, Guido E E J M ^b,c   Tsukamoto, Katsumi ^d   Dufour, Sylvie ^e   Weltzien, Finn Arne ^a   Henkel, Christiaan V ^a,b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b ZF screens BV ^*  (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE PRECURSOR; MELANOCORTIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; RNA ISOFORM; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADOLESCENT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENITAL SYSTEM; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOPHYSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POMC GENE; PREPUBERTY; RNA FINGERPRINTING; RNA SEQUENCE; SKIN COLOR; TELEOST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGUILLA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ONTOLOGY; MELANOCORTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PITUITARY GLAND; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84885400163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077396     Document Type: Article

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