Evolution of the melanocortin system

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 209, Issue , 2014, Pages 3-10

  Cortés, Raúl ^a   Navarro, Sandra ^a   Agulleiro, Maria Josep ^a   Guillot, Raúl ^a   García Herranz, Víctor ^a   Sánchez, Elisa ^a   Cerdá Reverter, José Miguel ^a  

^a CSIC Instituto de Acuicultura de Torre de la Sal IATS   (Spain)

Author keywords

ACTH; AGOUTI; AGRP; MRAP; MSH; POMC

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI PROTEIN; AGOUTI RELATED PROTEIN; MELANOCORTIN; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AGOUTI SIGNALING PROTEIN; AGOUTI-RELATED PROTEIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MELANOCORTINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 84914182028     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.04.005     Document Type: Review

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