Allelic variation of the ovine Toll-like receptor 4 gene

Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-108

  Zhou, Huitong ^a   Hickford, Jon G H ^a   Fang, Qian ^a   Lin, Yi Sien ^a  

^a Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Allelic variation; Sheep; Single strand conformational polymorphism; TLR4

Indexed keywords

TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

NEGIBACTERIA; OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33748943641     PISSN: 0145305X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2006.05.006     Document Type: Article

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