At the transition from invertebrates to vertebrates, a novel gnrh-like peptide emerges in amphioxus

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 765-778

  Roch, Graeme J ^a   Tello, Javier A ^a,b   Sherwood, Nancy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adipokinetic hormone; Amphioxus genome; Corazonin; GnRH superfamily; Hormone evolution; Receptor evolution

Indexed keywords

ADIPOKINETIC HORMONE; ARGIPRESTOCIN; CORAZONIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA FLORIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; INVERTEBRATE; MALE; NERVE CORD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VERTEBRATE;

ADIPOKINETIC HORMONE; AMPHIOXUS GENOME; CORAZONIN; GNRH SUPERFAMILY; HORMONE EVOLUTION; RECEPTOR EVOLUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; COS CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; LANCELETS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, LHRH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNTENY;

EID: 84897891960     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mst269     Document Type: Article

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