Characterization of β2-microglobulin coding sequence from three non-placental mammals: The duckbill platypus, the short-beaked echidna, and the grey short-tailed opossum

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 247-256

  Miska, Katarzyna B ^a   Hellman, Lars ^b   Miller, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evolution; Marsupials; Monotremes; 2 Microglobulin

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHIDNA; GENE LOCUS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPOSSUM; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PLATYPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

DIDELPHIDAE; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONODELPHIS; MONOTREMATA; ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS; PHALANGERIDAE; PROTOTHERIA; PTEROMYLAEUS BOVINUS; TACHYGLOSSUS ACULEATUS;

EID: 0037365250     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0145-305X(02)00095-2     Document Type: Article

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