New insights into alternative mechanisms of immune receptor diversification

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 87, Issue , 2005, Pages 209-236

  Litman, Gary W ^a,b,c   Cannon, John P ^a   Rast, Jonathan P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CHITIN; LEUCINE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; FISH; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; INNATE IMMUNITY; INVERTEBRATE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULE; MOLLUSC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; VERTEBRATE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INVERTEBRATES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; VARIATION (GENETICS); VERTEBRATES;

EID: 23644432645     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2776(05)87006-3     Document Type: Review

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