Structure of the chicken interferon-γ gene, and comparison to mammalian homologues

Gene

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-32

  Kaiser, Pete ^a   Wain, Hester M ^a   Rothwell, Lisa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avian; Cytokine; Genomic organisation; Nucleotide sequence

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; COSMID; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; INTERFERON TYPE II; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032545768     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00600-8     Document Type: Article

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