Immunoglobulin genetics of Ornithorhynchus anatinus (platypus) and Tachyglossus aculeatus (short-beaked echidna)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 811-819

  Belov, Katherine ^a   Hellman, Lars ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Constant region; Evolution; Immunoglobulin; Monotreme; Platypus; Short beaked echidna; Variable region

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; BIRD; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECHIDNA; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; MARSUPIAL; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLATYPUS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPTILE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AVES; EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS; REPTILIA; TACHYGLOSSUS ACULEATUS; THERIA;

EID: 0344436670     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00165-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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