Ig heavy chain of the sturgeon Acipenser baeri: cDNA sequence and diversity

Immunogenetics

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 372-382

  Lundqvist, Mats L ^a   Strömberg, Siv ^a   Pilström, Lars ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diversity; Evolution; Heavy chain; Immunoglobulin; Sturgeon; VH gene

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EXONUCLEASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FISH; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FISHES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0031760037     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050448     Document Type: Article

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