The serendipitous origin of chordate secretin peptide family members
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The secretin family is a pleotropic group of brain-gut peptides with affinity for class 2 G-protein coupled receptors (secretin family GPCRs) proposed to have emerged early in the metazoan radiation via gene or genome duplications. I...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2010-05-01
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Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/135 |