The MHC of the duck (Anas platyrhynchos) contains five differentially expressed class I genes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 175, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 6702-6712

  Moon, Debra A ^a   Veniamin, Simona M ^a   Parks Dely, Julie A ^a   Magor, Katharine E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ALLELE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CLONE; DUCK; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; INFLUENZA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOP CODON; TAP1 GENE; TAP2 GENE; UAA GENE; UBA GENE; UCA GENE; UDA GENE; UEA GENE; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 27744489155     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.175.10.6702     Document Type: Article

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