The generation of antibody diversity in the turtle

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3797-3805

  Turchin, Alexander ^a   Hsu, Ellen ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ARTICLE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TURTLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TURTLES;

EID: 0029967747     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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