Polymorphism of the IGHA gene in sheep

Immunogenetics

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 453-457

  Zhou, Huitong ^a   Hickford, Jon G H ^a   Fang, Qian ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Hinge; IGHA gene; Polymorphism; Sheep IgA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; DNA FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; PROTEINASE;

ALLELE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PUBLICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; GENE FREQUENCY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ALPHA-CHAINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SHEEP;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 25844527380     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-005-0007-z     Document Type: Article

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