Sequence analysis of 0.4 megabases of the rabbit germline immunoglobulin kappa1 light chain locus

Animal Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 51-57

  Ros, F ^a,c   Reichenberger, N ^a,c   Dragicevic, T ^a,c   Van Schooten, W C A ^b   Buelow, R ^b   Platzer, J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b THP Inc   (United States)

^c THP GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allotype; Antibody; BAC library; Gene conversion

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 13844272930     PISSN: 02689146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2052.2004.01221.x     Document Type: Article

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