TCR gamma chain diversity in the spleen of the duckbill platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 699-710

  Parra, Zuly E ^a   Arnold, Tamara ^a   Nowak, Melissa A ^a   Hellman, Lars ^b   Miller, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diversity; Evolution; Gamma delta; Marsupial; Monotremes; Phylogeny; T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN;

ARTICLE; BIRD; DISULFIDE BOND; ECHIDNA; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MARSUPIAL; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLATYPUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AVES; EUTHERIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS;

EID: 33645890593     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2005.10.002     Document Type: Article

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