In-silico identification of chicken immune-related genes

Immunogenetics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 122-133

  Smith, Jacqueline ^a   Speed, David ^a   Law, Andrew S ^a   Glass, Elizabeth J ^a   Burt, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chicken; Database; Expressed sequence tags (ESTs); Immune related genes

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHICKEN; IMMUNOGENETICS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; CHEMOKINES; CHICKENS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOKINES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENOME; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 2942627978     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-004-0669-y     Document Type: Article

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