The trans-species nature of rabbit b locus polymorphism is supported by studies on the snow-shoe hare

Immunogenetics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 444-446

  Bouton, Christianne ^a   Van Der Loo, Wessel ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; HARE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RABBITS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; LEPUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0030998585     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050229     Document Type: Short Survey

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