Coevolution of immunoglobulin heavy- and light-chain variable-region gene families

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 617-625

  Sitnikova, Tatyana ^a   Su, Chen ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birth and death process; Evolution; Immunoglobulins; Variable region

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ARTICLE; CATTLE; CHICKEN; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORSE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SWINE;

AMNIOTA; BOS TAURUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; GALLUS GALLUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS ARIES; SUS SCROFA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031843744     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025965     Document Type: Article

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