Towards understanding the evolutionary origins and early diversification of rearranging antigen receptors

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 166, Issue , 1998, Pages 79-86

  Rast, Jonathan P ^a   Litman, Gary W ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; FISH; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0032429167     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01254.x     Document Type: Review

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