TY - JOUR AU - Segat, Ludovica AU - Pontillo, Alessandra AU - Milanese, Michele AU - Tossi, Alessandro AU - Crovella, Sergio PY - 2008 DA - 2008/03/05 TI - Evolution of the hepcidin gene in primates JO - BMC Genomics SP - 120 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - Hepcidin/LEAP-1 is an iron regulatory hormone originally identified as an antimicrobial peptide. As part of a systematic analysis of the evolution of host defense peptides in primates, we have sequenced the orthologous gene from 14 species of non-human primates. SN - 1471-2164 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-9-120 DO - 10.1186/1471-2164-9-120 ID - Segat2008 ER -