Evolutionary origin of GnIH and NPFF in chordates: Insights from novel amphioxus RFamide peptides

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Osugi, Tomohiro ^a,c   Okamura, Tomoki ^a   Son, You Lee ^a   Ohkubo, Makoto ^a   Ubuka, Takayoshi ^a   Henmi, Yasuhisa ^b   Tsutsui, Kazuyoshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SUNTORY INSTITUTE FOR BIOORGANIC RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; FORSKOLIN; NEUROPEPTIDE FF; GLYCOPROTEIN; GONADOTROPIN INHIBITOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; RFAMIDE PEPTIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRANCHIOSTOMA; BRANCHIOSTOMA JAPONICUM; CHORDATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GNIH GENE; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NPFF GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RFAMIDE PEPTIDE GENE; SYNTENY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; COS 1 CELL LINE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GLYCOPROTEINS; LANCELETS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROPEPTIDES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84903731471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100962     Document Type: Article

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