Characterisation of a gene cluster in Fugu rubripes containing the complement component C4 gene

Gene

Volumn 312, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 73-83

  Sambrook, Jennifer G ^a   Campbell, R Duncan ^a   Elgar, Greg ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comparative; Evolution; Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC); Synteny

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT INFLAMMATORY FACTOR 1; AMINO ACID; CASEIN KINASE II; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; CYSTEINE; CYTOCHROME P450; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 3; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; TENASCIN; THIOESTER; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; DNA; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE; TENASCIN X;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ARM; CLONE; COSMID; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINKAGE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRON; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PUFFER FISH; TELEOST; CHEMISTRY; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

FUGU RUBRIPES; TAKIFUGU; TAKIFUGU RUBRIPES; TELEOST FISH; TELEOSTEI; TETRAPODA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENT C3; COMPLEMENT C4; CONTIG MAPPING; DNA; GENE ORDER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STEROID 21-HYDROXYLASE; TAKIFUGU; TENASCIN;

EID: 0141430075     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(03)00602-4     Document Type: Article

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