Extensive diversity of transcribed TCR-β in a phylogenetically primitive vertebrate

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2458-2464

  Hawke, Noel A ^a   Rast, Jonathan P ^b   Litman, Gary W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FISH; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHARKS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0029998788     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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