Evidence for an early appearance of modern postswitch isotypes in mammalian evolution; cloning of IgE, IgG and IgA from the marsupial Monodelphis domestica

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2738-2750

  Aveskogh, Maria ^a,b   Hellman, Lars ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evolution; IgA; IgE; IgG; IgY; Marsupial

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN SWITCH REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPOSSUMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0031670452     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199809)28:09<2738::AID-IMMU2738>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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