MHC class II pseudogene and genomic signature of a 32-kb cosmid in the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus)

Genome Research

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 613-623

  Hess, Christopher M ^a   Gasper, Joe ^a   Hoekstra, Hopi E ^a   Hill, Christopher E ^a   Edwards, Scott V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; EXON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HYBRID GENE; INTRON; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PSEUDOGENE; RETROPOSON; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; AVIAN PROTEINS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; CHICKENS; COSMIDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MHC CLASS II; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; PSEUDOGENES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SONGBIRDS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; FRINGILLIDAE; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034126368     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.10.5.613     Document Type: Article

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