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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University to Zhenhui Liu (No. NCET-08-0501), the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of China (No.2008AA092603 and 2008AA09Z409) and the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry (No. 2009–1001).

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  1. Department of Marine Biology, Key Laboratory of Marine Genetics and Breeding, Ocean University of China, 5 Yushan Road, Qingdao, 266003, China

    Zhenhui Liu

  2. Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China

    Linfang Li & Min Zhang

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Liu, Z., Li, L., Zhang, M. (2018). GALR, Galanin Receptor. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_462

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