Occurrence of Two Distinct Urotensin II-Related Peptides in Zebrafish Provides New Insight into the Evolutionary History of the Urotensin II Gene Family

Caroline Parmentier,Emilie Hameury,Christophe Dubessy,Feng B. Quan,Damien Habert,A. Calas,Hubert Vaudry,Isabelle Lihrmann,Hervé Tostivint

Occurrence of Two Distinct Urotensin II-Related Peptides in Zebrafish Provides New Insight into the Evolutionary History of the Urotensin II Gene Family

2011

Caroline Parmentier
Emilie Hameury
Christophe Dubessy
Feng B. Quan
Damien Habert
A. Calas
Hubert Vaudry
Isabelle Lihrmann
Hervé Tostivint

The UII gene family possesses four distinct paralogs that arose during two rounds of tetraploidization: urotensin II, urotensin II-related peptide (URP) and the two novel teleost isoforms URP1 and URP2.

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Homology (biology)
Gene isoform
Urotensin-II
Gene
Endocrinology
Zebrafish
Gene family
Genetics
Biology
Internal medicine
Peptide

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