Table 2

Members of the bovine and ovine PRL and GH gene families

Member
Abbreviation
Bovine GenBank Accession No.
Ovine GenBank Accession No.

Prolactin family members*



     Prolactin
PRL
V00112
M27057
     Placental lactogen
PL
NM_181007
M31660
     Prolactin related protein-I
PRP-I
NM_174159
---
     Prolactin related protein-II
PRP-II
M27239
---
     Prolactin related protein-III
PRP-III
NM_174160
---
     Prolactin related protein-IV
PRP-IV
M33269
---
     Prolactin related protein-V
PRP-V
X15975
---
     Prolactin related protein-VI
PRP-VI
X59504
---
Growth hormone family members



     Growth hormone
GH
NM_180996
AH005460
     Growth hormone2-Z
GH2-Z
---
AH005492

*Please note that the list of bovine and ovine PRL family members is probably not complete. Additional bovine PRL family members and possibly ovine PRL members may be discovered as bovine and ovine genome projects move forward.

Soares Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2004 2:51   doi:10.1186/1477-7827-2-51