Marsupial light chains: IGK with four V families in the opossum Monodelphis domestica

Immunogenetics

Volumn 50, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 329-335

  Miller, Robert D ^a   Bergemann, Elizabeth R ^a   Rosenberg, George H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; IGK; Light chains; Marsupials; Variable regions

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS DOMESTICA;

EID: 0032784907     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050609     Document Type: Article

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