Two ancient allelic lineages at the single classical class I locus in the Xenopus MHC

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 3826-3833

  Flajnik, Martin F ^a,b   Ohta, Yuko ^a,b   Greenberg, Andrew S ^a   Salter Cid, Luisa ^a   Carrizosa, Ana ^a   Du Pasquier, Louis ^c   Kasahara, Masanori ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MHC CLASS I; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RANA PIPIENS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033214403     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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