Sequences and evolution of mammalian RH gene transcripts and proteins

Immunogenetics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-25

  Apoil, Pol André ^a   Blancher, Antoine ^b  

^a Site de Toulouse   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Evolution; Nonhuman primates; Phylogenesis; Rh blood group system; RH genes

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RHESUS ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD GROUP RHESUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ERYTHROCYTE MEMBRANE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; HYDROPHILICITY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSIMIAN; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; HUMANS; INVERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; RATS; RH-HR BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; LEMUR; MAMMALIA; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PLATYRRHINI; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PRIMATES; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 0032931751     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050459     Document Type: Article

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