Isolation and characterization of a protochordate histocompatibility locus

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7067, 2005, Pages 454-459

  De Tomaso, Anthony W ^a   Nyholm, Spencer V ^a   Palmeri, Karla J ^a   Ishizuka, Katherine J ^a   Ludington, William B ^a   Mitchel, Katrina ^a   Weissman, Irving L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; PROTEINS; TISSUE;

HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; VERTEBRATES;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRAIT; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOGENETICS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASCIDIA; BOTRYLLUS SCHLOSSERI; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 28544447215     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04150     Document Type: Article

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