Discovery of the elusive leptin in birds: Identification of several 'missing links' in the evolution of leptin and its receptor

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Prokop, Jeremy W ^a,b   Schmidt, Cameron ^a   Gasper, Donald ^a   Duff, Robert J ^a   Milsted, Amy ^a   Ohkubo, Takeshi ^c   Ball, Hope C ^a   Shawkey, Matthew D ^a   Mays Jr , Herman L ^d   Cogburn, Larry A ^e   Londraville, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Cincinnati Museum Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JANUS KINASE; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; STAT PROTEIN;

ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ARTICLE; ATP6V1P GENE; BIRD; CALLORHINCHUS MILII; COELACANTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALCO PEREGRINUS; FLNC GENE; FOUR HELIX; GENE; GENOME; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMPDH1 GENE; LEPTIN GENE; LRRC4 GENE; MIR129 GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PELODISCUS SINENSIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EVOLUTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PYTHON MOLURUS; RBM28 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SND1 GENE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; REPTILE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LEPTIN; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; REPTILES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 84899761755     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092751     Document Type: Article

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