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Neuropeptide-like protein diversity in phylum Nematoda.
International journal for parasitology - 1 Nov 2008
McVeigh Paul, Alexander-Bowman Susan, Veal Emma, Mousley Angela, Marks Nikki J, Maule Aaron G
Abstract excerpt
This study reports the identification of nematode neuropeptide-like protein (nlp) sequelogs from the GenBank expressed sequence tag (EST) database, using BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) search methodology. Search strings derived from peptides encoded by the 45 known Caenorhabditis elegans nlp genes were used to identify more than 1000 ESTs encoding a total of 26 multi-species nlp sequelogs. The...
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