The plasticity of immunoglobulin gene systems in evolution

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 210, Issue , 2006, Pages 8-26

  Hsu, Ellen ^a   Pulham, Nicolas ^a   Rumfelt, Lynn L ^b   Flajnik, Martin F ^c  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; RAG1 PROTEIN; RAG2 PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; EVOLUTION; EXON; FISH; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HYBRID GENE; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 33645301314     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2006.00366.x     Document Type: Review

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