The complexity of genetic variation in a simple immune system

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 197-199

  Kwiatkowski, Dominic P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE;

CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHROMOSOME; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH INHIBITION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INSECT GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SHORT SURVEY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SERRATIA MARCESCENS;

EID: 15244342465     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2005.02.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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