Distinct patterns of IgH structure and organization in a divergent lineage of chrondrichthyan fishes

Immunogenetics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 234-245

  Rast, Jonathan P ^a,c   Amemiya, Chris T ^b   Litman, Ronda T ^a   Strong, Scott J ^a   Litman, Gary W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chimpanzee; Evolution; Inter species allele; Intron; MHX class I

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELASMOBRANCHII; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LIBRARY; GENE STRUCTURE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SPLEEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOGFISH; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENE LIBRARY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENTS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; CHIMAERA MONSTROSA; CHONDRICHTHYES; ELASMOBRANCHII; HYDROLAGUS; HYDROLAGUS COLLIEI; PAN TROGLODYTES; PISCES;

EID: 0031984559     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050353     Document Type: Article

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