Different evolutionary histories of the two classical class I genes BF1 and BF2 illustrate drift and selection within the stable MHC haplotypes of chickens

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 178, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5744-5752

  Shaw, Iain ^a,d   Powell, Timothy J ^a,e   Marston, Denise A ^a,f   Baker, Ken ^a,g   Van Hateren, Andrew ^a,h   Riegert, Patricia ^b   Wiles, Michael V ^b,i   Milne, Sarah ^c   Beck, Stephan ^c   Kaufman, Jim ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (United Kingdom)

^b BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^e TRUDEAU INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BF1 GENE; BF2 GENE; CHICKEN; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DMB2 GENE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; INFECTION RESISTANCE; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TAP1 GENE; TAP2 GENE;

EID: 34247641675     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.9.5744     Document Type: Article

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