Structure of the catfish IGH locus: Analysis of the region including the single functional IGHM gene

Immunogenetics

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 831-844

  Bengten E ^a   Quiniou, S ^b   Hikima, J ^c   Waldbieser, G ^b   Warr, G W ^c   Miller, N W ^a   Wilson, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial artificial chromosome; Catfish; Immunoglobulin heavy chain locus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN T; IMMUNOGLOBULIN Z; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CATFISH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IGHM GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; PUFFER FISH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELEOST; TROUT; ZEBRA FISH;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; ICTALURIDAE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN MU-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PSEUDOGENES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DANIO RERIO; ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS; SALMONIDAE; TELEOSTEI; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 33749668104     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00251-006-0139-9     Document Type: Article

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