Revisiting the gastrin-releasing peptide/bombesin system: A reverse-evolutionary study considering Xenopus
A. Hirooka, M. Hamada, D. Fujiyama, K. Takanami, Y. Kobayashi, T. Oti, T. Sakamoto, H. Sakamoto
This study investigates the evolutionary relationships of the gastrin-releasing peptide (GRP) and bombesin systems in vertebrates using Xenopus tropicalis, showing GRP is not a mammalian counterpart of bombesin and that the NMB/bombesin system has diversified in frogs.
bioRxiv · May 13, 2020Evolutionary Biology