The chicken B locus is a minimal essential major histocompatibility complex

Nature

Volumn 401, Issue 6756, 1999, Pages 923-925

  Kaufman, Jim ^a   Milne, Sarah ^b   Göbel, Thomas W F ^c   Walker, Brian A ^a   Jacob, Jansen P ^a   Auffray, Charles ^d   Zoorob, Rima ^d   Beck, Stephan ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c Institute for Animal Physiology   (Germany)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MHC CLASS I; GENES, MHC CLASS II; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0033613425     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/44856     Document Type: Article

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