A long form of the skate IgX gene exhibits a striking resemblance to the new shark IgW and IgNARC genes

Immunogenetics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-67

  Anderson, Michele K ^a   Strong, Scott J ^b   Litman, Ronda T ^b   Luer, Carl A ^c   Amemiya, Chris T ^d   Rast, Jonathan P ^a   Litman, Gary W ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Germline joining; Immunoglobulin heavy chain; Molecular evolution; Multigene family; Transcription

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; FISH; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHARK;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FISHES; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ISOTYPES; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHARKS; SKATES (FISH); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AMPHIBIA; CHONDRICHTHYES; OSTEICHTHYES; RAJA EGLANTERIA; REPTILIA;

EID: 0032933342     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050463     Document Type: Article

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