Identification and mapping of two divergent, unlinked major histocompatibility complex class II B genes in Xiphophorus fishes

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1921-1934

  McConnell, Thomas J ^a   Godwin, Ulla B ^a   Norton, Stephen F ^a   Nairn, Rodney S ^b   Kazianis, Steven ^b   Morizot, Donald C ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE (DECARBOXYLATING);

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FISH; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LINKAGE GROUP; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INBRED STRAIN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; INTRONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANURA; CHONDRICHTHYES; GINGLYMOSTOMA CIRRATUM; PISCES; TELEOSTEI; XENOPUS (GENUS); XIPHOPHORUS; XIPHOPHORUS HELLERII; XIPHOPHORUS MACULATUS;

EID: 0031904191     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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