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A standardized nomenclature for the mouse and rat prolactin superfamilies

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  1. Institute of Maternal-Fetal Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, 66160, USA

    Michael J. Soares, S. M. Khorshed Alam & Toshihiro Konno

  2. Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, R3E 3J7, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

    Mary Lynn Duckworth

  3. Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45267, USA

    Nelson D. Horseman

  4. Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 60208, USA

    Daniel I. H. Linzer

  5. Mouse Genome Informatics Resource and Mouse Genomic Nomenclature Committee, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, 04609, USA

    Lois J. Maltais

  6. Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011, USA

    Marit Nilsen-Hamilton

  7. Department of Cellular Biochemistry, Veterinary Medical Sciences/Animal Resource Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1 Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Kunio Shiota

  8. Rat Genome Database, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53226, USA

    Jennifer R. Smith

  9. Biochemistry Department, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK

    Michael Wallis

  10. Institute of Maternal-Fetal Biology, Division of Cancer and Developmental Biology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS 66160, USA

    Michael J. Soares

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Soares, M.J., Alam, S.M.K., Duckworth, M.L. et al. A standardized nomenclature for the mouse and rat prolactin superfamilies. Mamm Genome 18, 154–156 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00335-007-9003-y

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