An antecedent of the MHC-linked genomic region in amphioxus

Immunogenetics

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 782-784

  Castro, L Filipe C ^a   Furlong, Rebecca F ^b   Holland, Peter W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

FISH; Genome evolution; Paralogy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 19; CHROMOSOME 6P; CHROMOSOME 9; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENOMICS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PARALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CHORDATA, NONVERTEBRATE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

ANIMALIA; BRANCHIOSTOMA LANCEOLATUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1542359004     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-004-0642-9     Document Type: Article

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