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Relaxin gene family in teleosts: phylogeny, syntenic mapping, selective constraint, and expression analysis
1 Jan 2009
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BACKGROUND: In recent years, the relaxin family of signaling molecules has been shown to play diverse roles in mammalian physiology, but little is known about its diversity or physiology in teleosts, an infraclass of the bony fishes comprising approximately 50% of all extant vertebrates. In this paper, 32 relaxin family sequences were obtained by searching genomic and cDNA databases from eight teleost species;...
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