Major histocompatibility complex variation in the endangered Przewalski's horse

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1701-1710

  Hedrick, Philip W ^a   Parker, Karen M ^a   Miller, Ellen L ^a,b   Miller, Philip S ^a,c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Conserv Breeding Specialist Group ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORSE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; STOP CODON;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, MHC CLASS II; HORSES; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PEDIGREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345718512     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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