Reconstructing immune phylogeny: New perspectives

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 866-879

  Litman, Gary W ^a,b   Cannon, John P ^a,b   Dishaw, Larry J ^a,b  

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INNATE IMMUNITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GENES, RAG-1; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INVERTEBRATES; PHYLOGENY; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 27744492083     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1712     Document Type: Review

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