Genomic organisation of the chicken ghrelin gene and its single nucleotide polymorphisms detected by denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography

British Poultry Science

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 611-618

  Nie, Q ^a   Zeng, H ^a   Lei, M ^a   Ishag, N A ^a   Fang, M ^a   Sun, B ^a   Yang, G ^a   Zhang, X ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GHRELIN; PEPTIDE HORMONE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA DENATURATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CHICKENS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PEPTIDE HORMONES; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 9944259168     PISSN: 00071668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071660400006263     Document Type: Article

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